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February 25, 2024May 9, 2025

I was nearly done reading a magazine about the world’s best whiskeys when I came upon this. I began laughing, and I was stone Read More...

Tony did not die at Holsten’s restaurant.

January 25, 2024May 10, 2025

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Now we know why some writers drink!

December 23, 2023May 9, 2025

There is a stereotype out there about writers. They’re talented and frustrated and hit the bottle way too often. Maybe the reason Read More...

An alleged SEO expert emailed me. This is what followed.

November 4, 2023October 3, 2025

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The descriptive powers of the great John Houseman.

September 27, 2023October 3, 2025

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The A.I. bot says: “Get out of the chair. Go have a drink. I’ll do the writing.”

July 24, 2023May 9, 2025

I recently read an article about how A.I. was supposed to reduce the workload of those in the world of writing. Instead, literary Read More...

The U.S. editor-in-chief of TechRadar.com tries to get ChatGPT to write a screenplay.

June 9, 2023May 9, 2025

Lance Ulanoff is prolific US editor-in-chief for TechRadar. On February 25, 2023, he published an article titled: ChatGPT showed me Read More...

“And no one can talk to a horse of course.” Wrong!

May 18, 2023May 9, 2025

Fifty-seven years after the hit show Mister Ed went off the air, and 53 years after Bamboo Harvester (Ed) died, something Read More...

The last of the three-dot journalists.

April 21, 2023May 9, 2025

On a whim last night, I did a Google search for a guy named Strange de Jim. Some older folks in the San Francisco Bay Area will know Read More...

Unmarked graves out past Terlingua

April 6, 2023October 3, 2025

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I haven’t got 10 rules that guarantee success, though I promise I’d share them if I did. The truth is that I found success by stumbling off alone in a direction most people thought was a dead end, breaking all the 1990s shibboleths about children’s books in the process.

J.K. Rowling

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

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

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

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

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

G.K. Chesterton

Writing a novel is like driving a car at night. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.

E. L. Doctorow

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

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

Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don’t feel I should be doing something else.

Gloria Steinem

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

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

Christopher Hampton

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

Stephen Wright

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

T.S. Eliot

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

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

Roald Dahl

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

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

Sidney Sheldon

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

Stephen King

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