Because every
story begins
with words

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Video: Write a book. Presenting a few things you need to know before you begin.

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

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

E. B. White

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

Edward Albee

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

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

M. K. Simmons

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

Tom Clancy

In Hollywood, the woods are full of people that learned to write but evidently can’t read. If they could read their stuff, they’d stop writing.

Will Rogers

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

Joseph Conrad

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

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

Stan Lee

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

The character that lasts is an ordinary guy with some extraordinary qualities.

Raymond Chandler

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

Work on a computer that is disconnected from the Internet.

Zadie Smith

Ever heard of a carpenter not going to work because he has “carpenter’s block”? If a writer can’t write, it’s because he doesn’t really want to, he isn’t ready to get it on paper or he’s just plain lazy.

Chet Cunningham

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

Lisa See

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

T.S. Eliot

I get up in the morning, torture a typewriter until it screams, then stop.

Clarence Budington Kelland

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