Because every
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Just don’t be boring!

Robert Liebmann

The road to ignorance is paved with good editors.

George Bernard Shaw

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

William Shawn

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

William Goldman

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

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

Thomas Jefferson

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

Biography should be written by an acute enemy.

Arthur Balfour

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

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

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

Tom Clancy

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

T.S. Eliot

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

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

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

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 good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.

G.K. Chesterton

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Stephen King

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

Sidney Sheldon