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The road to ignorance is paved with good editors.

George Bernard Shaw

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

C. J. Cherryh

I haven’t got 10 rules that guarantee success, though I promise I’d share them if I did. The truth is that I found success by stumbling off alone in a direction most people thought was a dead end, breaking all the 1990s shibboleths about children’s books in the process.

J.K. Rowling

Reading and weeping opens the door to one’s heart, but writing and weeping opens the window to one’s soul.

M. K. Simmons

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

Edward Albee

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

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

Stan Lee

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

The fact is, I don’t know where my ideas come from. Nor does any writer. The only real answer is to drink way too much coffee and buy yourself a desk that doesn’t collapse when you beat your head against it.

Douglas Adams

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

Roald Dahl

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

Stephen King

When writing a novel, that’s pretty much entirely what life turns into: “House burned down. Car stolen. Cat exploded. Did 1,500 easy words, so all in all it was a pretty good day.”

Neil Gaiman

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

T.S. Eliot

Thank your readers and the critics who praise you, and then ignore them. Write for the most intelligent, wittiest, wisest audience in the universe: Write to please yourself.

Harlan Ellison

If the sex scene doesn’t make you want to do it — whatever it is they’re doing — it hasn’t been written right.

Sloan Wilson

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

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

Matthew Arnold

Keep a small can of WD-40 on your desk — away from any open flames — to remind yourself that if you don’t write daily, you will get rusty.

George Singleton

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