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

Dan Poynter

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

Matthew Arnold

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

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

If my poetry aims to achieve anything, it’s to deliver people from the limited ways in which they see and feel.

Jim Morrison

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

Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamppost how it feels about dogs.

Christopher Hampton

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

Jodi Picoult

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

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

William Goldman

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

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

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

William Shawn

The first chapter sells the book; the last chapter sells the next book.

Mickey Spillane

Just don’t be boring!

Robert Liebmann

It always comes down to characters, and individual stories about courage.

Steven Bochco

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

Edward Albee

Work on a computer that is disconnected from the Internet.

Zadie Smith

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

Tom Clancy

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

Oscar Wilde