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

Romulus Linney

The road to ignorance is paved with good editors.

George Bernard Shaw

Socially, a journalist fits in somewhere between a whore and a bartender. But spiritually he stands beside Galileo. He knows the world is round.

Sherman Reilly Duffy

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

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

Biography should be written by an acute enemy.

Arthur Balfour

A writer without interest or sympathy for the foibles of his fellow man is not conceivable as a writer.

Joseph Conrad

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

Dan Poynter

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

Roald Dahl

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

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

Lisa See

Easy reading is damn hard writing.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

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

Sidney Sheldon

Do not place a photograph of your favorite author on your desk, especially if the author is one of the famous ones who committed suicide.

Roddy Doyle

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

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

E. B. White

A writer is a world trapped in a person.

Victor Hugo

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

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Tom Clancy