Because every
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A writer is a world trapped in a person.

Victor Hugo

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

Stan Lee

It’s an accepted fact that all writers are crazy; even the normal ones are weird.

William Goldman

Have something to say, and say it as clearly as you can. That is the only secret.

Matthew Arnold

Just don’t be boring!

Robert Liebmann

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

Gloria Steinem

The reason 99% of all stories written are not bought by editors is very simple. Editors never buy manuscripts that are left on the closet shelf at home.

John Campbell

I have a structured songwriting process. I start with the music and try to come up with musical ideas, then the melody, then the hook, and the lyrics come last.

John Legend

What I loved most about calling myself a reporter was that it gave me an excuse to show up anyplace.

Jeanette Walls

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

You may be able to take a break from writing, but you won’t be able to take a break from being a writer.

Stephen Leigh

A true author, no matter the medium, is an artist with godlike knowledge of his subject, and the proof of his authorship is that his pages smack of authority.

Robert McKee

If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.

Oscar Wilde

My aim is to put down what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way I can tell it.

Ernest Hemingway

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

Lisa See

Do you know what a playwright is? A playwright is someone who lets his guts hang out on the stage.

Edward Albee

Writers aren’t people exactly. Or, if they’re any good, they’re a whole lot of people trying so hard to be one person.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

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

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

Romulus Linney

I write the last line, and then I write the line before that. I find myself writing backwards for a while, until I have a solid sense of how that ending sounds and feels. You have to know what your voice sounds like at the end of the story, because it tells you how to sound when you begin.

John Irving