Because every
story begins
with words

video why you should hire an American writer

Video: Why you should hire an American writer.

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

Stephen King

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

Biography should be written by an acute enemy.

Arthur Balfour

What I loved most about calling myself a reporter was that it gave me an excuse to show up anyplace.

Jeanette Walls

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

Clarence Budington Kelland

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

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

A writer is a world trapped in a person.

Victor Hugo

Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards.

Robert A. Heinlein

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

C. J. Cherryh

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

Tom Clancy

Critics are people who sit on the mountaintop and look down on the battlefield. When the fighting is finished, they take it upon themselves to come down from the mountain and shoot the survivors.

Robert Altman

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

William Goldman

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

Edward Albee

Books aren’t written, they’re rewritten. Including your own. It is one of the hardest things to accept, especially after the seventh rewrite hasn’t quite done it.

Michael Crichton

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

Roald Dahl

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

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

Don’t annoy an author, you’ll end up in their book and you won’t look good.

Lawrence Wray