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November 19, 2015May 9, 2025

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You can always edit a bad page. You can’t edit a blank page.

Jodi Picoult

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

E. B. White

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

C. J. Cherryh

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

Edward Albee

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

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

Roald Dahl

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

Stan Lee

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

It always comes down to characters, and individual stories about courage.

Steven Bochco

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

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Thomas Wolfe

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

G.K. Chesterton

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

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

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

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

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

Jeanette Walls

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