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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

It is only natural to pattern yourself after someone. But you can’t just copy someone. If you like someone’s work, the important thing is to be exposed to everything that person has been exposed to.

Bob Dylan

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

T.S. Eliot

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

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

Sidney Sheldon

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

Clarence Budington Kelland

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

Every writer with half a brain knows to surround himself or herself with editors who are smarter, far more articulate and infinitely better looking.

Chris Claremont

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

G.K. Chesterton

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

Lawrence Wray

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

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

Romulus Linney

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

William Goldman

No writer has ever yet been known to hang himself as long as he had another chapter left.

Thomas Wolfe

I’m writing a book. I’ve got the page numbers done.

Stephen Wright

My aim is to put down what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way I can tell it.

Ernest Hemingway

The reason 99% of all stories written are not bought by editors is very simple. Editors never buy manuscripts that are left on the closet shelf at home.

John Campbell

A writer is a world trapped in a person.

Victor Hugo

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

Roald Dahl

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