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No one can write decently who is distrustful of the reader’s intelligence or whose attitude is patronizing.

E. B. White

Writing has laws of perspective, of light and shade, just as painting does, or music. If you are born knowing them, fine. If not, learn them. Then rearrange the rules to suit yourself.

Truman Capote Quote

Plot is, I think, the good writer’s last resort and the dullard’s first choice.

Stephen King

Ever heard of a carpenter not going to work because he has “carpenter’s block”? If a writer can’t write, it’s because he doesn’t really want to, he isn’t ready to get it on paper or he’s just plain lazy.

Chet Cunningham

I get up in the morning, torture a typewriter until it screams, then stop.

Clarence Budington Kelland

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

Gloria Steinem

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

Anecdotes don’t make good stories. Generally, I dig down underneath them so far that the story that finally comes out is not what people thought their anecdotes were about.

Alice Munro

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

Matthew Arnold

To me, movies and music go hand in hand. When I’m writing a script, one of the first things I do is find the music I’m going to play for the opening sequence.

Quentin Tarantino

It begins with a character, usually, and once he stands up on his feet and begins to move, all I can do is trot along behind him with a paper and pencil, trying to keep up long enough to put down what he says and does.

William Faulkner

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

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

Lawrence Wray

Good instincts usually tell you what to do long before your head has figured it out.

Michael Burke

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

Lisa See

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

Thomas Jefferson

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

Stan Lee

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

In Hollywood, the woods are full of people that learned to write but evidently can’t read. If they could read their stuff, they’d stop writing.

Will Rogers

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