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November 19, 2015June 6, 2026

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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

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

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

If you wait for inspiration to write, you’re not a writer. You’re a waiter.

Dan Poynter

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

Raymond Chandler

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

C. J. Cherryh

Just don’t be boring!

Robert Liebmann

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

Stephen King

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

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

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

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

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

Work on a computer that is disconnected from the Internet.

Zadie Smith

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

E. B. White

It’s an accepted fact that all writers are crazy; even the normal ones are weird.

William Goldman

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

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