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Writers who read really hate typos.

September 1, 2016May 9, 2025

I don’t know how Eric reacts when he’s engrossed in a book or article and comes across a misspelled word, or the wrong Read More...

Donald Trump badly needs the guidance of a professional speechwriter.

July 29, 2016May 9, 2025

A few days ago, my partner suggested that I do a blog post about President Barack Obama’s speech at the 2016 Democratic National Read More...

“I can’t believe you have a phone,” she said.

July 25, 2016May 9, 2025

True story. One day a client said that to me. Honestly, I was surprised. It never occurred to me that so many other writers don’t Read More...

Donald Trump’s ghostwriter is feeling guilty.

July 19, 2016October 3, 2025

Here’s an ethical dilemma for the ages. Ghostwriter Tony Schwartz claims that he wrote GOP presidential candidate Donald Read More...

Got a site? Got a blog? Here’s why you need one.

March 4, 2016May 9, 2025

Blogs are important for a couple of reasons. First, it’s a great way to communicate with your customers. An interesting, ongoing Read More...

Ghostwriters Central Recommends THE BIG SHORT.

February 1, 2016May 9, 2025

It was about two weeks ago when Ghostwriters Central founding partner Michael McKown texted his fellow founding partner and told him to Read More...

Swiss universities cracking down on academic ghostwriters.

January 19, 2016May 9, 2025

We always turn down offers to ghostwrite “homework assignments” — and this article pretty much sums up why: Handing Read More...

Happy New Year from Ghostwriters Central!

December 30, 2015May 9, 2025

We’re winding up an excellent 2015 here at Ghostwriters Central. It’s been a busy year, complete with many projects, Read More...

Post number one. Hi there!

November 19, 2015May 9, 2025

Welcome to the Ghostwriters Central blog. This blog will be authored by me, for the time being. We do hope you will find it to be Read More...

Biography should be written by an acute enemy.

Arthur Balfour

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

I have a structured songwriting process. I start with the music and try to come up with musical ideas, then the melody, then the hook, and the lyrics come last.

John Legend

Easy reading is damn hard writing.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

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

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

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

Clarence Budington Kelland

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

Michael Burke

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

E. B. White

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

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

Anecdotes don’t make good stories. Generally, I dig down underneath them so far that the story that finally comes out is not what people thought their anecdotes were about.

Alice Munro

The road to ignorance is paved with good editors.

George Bernard Shaw

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 have long felt that any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has just put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae or banana split.

Kurt Vonnegut, Jr

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

If my poetry aims to achieve anything, it’s to deliver people from the limited ways in which they see and feel.

Jim Morrison

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

Stephen Wright

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

Edward Albee

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