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Post number one. Hi there!

November 19, 2015May 9, 2025

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

Jeanette Walls

You may be able to take a break from writing, but you won’t be able to take a break from being a writer.

Stephen Leigh

Have something to say, and say it as clearly as you can. That is the only secret.

Matthew Arnold

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

Tom Clancy

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

Stephen King

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

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

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

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

Roald Dahl

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

Oscar Wilde

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

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 true author, no matter the medium, is an artist with godlike knowledge of his subject, and the proof of his authorship is that his pages smack of authority.

Robert McKee

It begins with a character, usually, and once he stands up on his feet and begins to move, all I can do is trot along behind him with a paper and pencil, trying to keep up long enough to put down what he says and does.

William Faulkner

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

The character that lasts is an ordinary guy with some extraordinary qualities.

Raymond Chandler

Work on a computer that is disconnected from the Internet.

Zadie Smith

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

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

Jodi Picoult

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.