Because every
story begins
with words

Eight secrets to writing a low-budget movie

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Just don’t be boring!

Robert Liebmann

Don’t annoy an author, you’ll end up in their book and you won’t look good.

Lawrence Wray

The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.

Thomas Jefferson

Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don’t feel I should be doing something else.

Gloria Steinem

Stories are never too long or too short. They’re too interesting or too boring.

William Shawn

If my poetry aims to achieve anything, it’s to deliver people from the limited ways in which they see and feel.

Jim Morrison

If you have an idea that you genuinely think is good, don’t let some idiot talk you out of it.

Stan Lee

There are three primal urges in human beings: Food, sex, and rewriting someone else’s play.

Romulus Linney

Writing a novel is like driving a car at night. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.

E. L. Doctorow

It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn’t give it up because by that time I was too famous.

Robert Benchley

I don’t care if a reader hates one of my stories, just as long as he finishes the book.

Roald Dahl

Every writer with half a brain knows to surround himself or herself with editors who are smarter, far more articulate and infinitely better looking.

Chris Claremont

Everybody walks past a thousand story ideas every day. The good writers are the ones who see five or six of them. Most people don’t see any.

Orson Scott Card

I have long felt that any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has just put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae or banana split.

Kurt Vonnegut, Jr

Read a thousand books and your words will flow like a river.

Lisa See

Biography should be written by an acute enemy.

Arthur Balfour

It is only natural to pattern yourself after someone. But you can’t just copy someone. If you like someone’s work, the important thing is to be exposed to everything that person has been exposed to.

Bob Dylan

Substitute “damn” every time you’re inclined to write “very”; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.

Mark Twain

A writer is a world trapped in a person.

Victor Hugo

It is perfectly okay to write garbage — as long as you edit brilliantly.

C. J. Cherryh