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How a professor caught students cheating by writing with A.I.

November 20, 2025

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The great dinner delay of August 3, 2015.

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For those who follow this blog, you know I love great writing. I found this on Quora yesterday. Apparently it was posted in Read More...

Which to write first – the manuscript or screenplay?

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Write the manuscript first, or the screenplay? By- Michael McKown Co-founder & president, Ghostwriters Central, Inc. Book or Read More...

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Hire a non-fiction ghostwriter

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Hire a ghostwriter for your novel

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Why hire a ghostwriter for a screenplay

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Using a ghostwriter for a memoir or autobiography

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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

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

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

Romulus Linney

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

Stephen Wright

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

Tom Clancy

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

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

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

G.K. Chesterton

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

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

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

C. J. Cherryh

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

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

Oscar Wilde

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

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

E. B. White

Good instincts usually tell you what to do long before your head has figured it out.

Michael Burke

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

Stan Lee

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

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.