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If you wait for inspiration to write, you’re not a writer. You’re a waiter.

Dan Poynter

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

Thomas Jefferson

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

Jeanette Walls

A writer is a world trapped in a person.

Victor Hugo

No writer has ever yet been known to hang himself as long as he had another chapter left.

Thomas Wolfe

You can always edit a bad page. You can’t edit a blank page.

Jodi Picoult

A blank piece of paper is God’s way of telling us how hard it to be God.

Sidney Sheldon

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

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

Romulus Linney

If you start with a bang, you won’t end with a whimper.

T.S. Eliot

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

E. B. White

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

William Shawn

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

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

Lisa See

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

Matthew Arnold

I do not over-intellectualize the production process. I try to keep it simple: Tell the damned story.

Tom Clancy

Critics are people who sit on the mountaintop and look down on the battlefield. When the fighting is finished, they take it upon themselves to come down from the mountain and shoot the survivors.

Robert Altman

If you haven’t got an idea, start a story anyway. You can always throw it away, and maybe by the time you get to the fourth page you will have an idea, and you’ll only have to throw away the first three pages.

William C. Gault

My own experience is that once a story has been written, one has to cross out the beginning and the end. It is there that we authors do most of our lying.

Anton Chekhov

Biography should be written by an acute enemy.