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Tony did not die at Holsten’s restaurant.

January 25, 2024January 26, 2024

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Now we know why some writers drink!

December 23, 2023December 23, 2023

There is a stereotype out there about writers. They’re talented and frustrated and hit the bottle way too often. Maybe the reason Read More...

An alleged SEO expert emailed me. This is what followed.

November 4, 2023November 4, 2023

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The descriptive powers of the great John Houseman.

September 27, 2023September 29, 2023

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The A.I. bot says: “Get out of the chair. Go have a drink. I’ll do the writing.”

July 24, 2023September 27, 2023

I recently read an article about how A.I. was supposed to reduce the workload of those in the world of writing. Instead, literary Read More...

The U.S. editor-in-chief of TechRadar.com tries to get ChatGPT to write a screenplay.

June 9, 2023April 19, 2025

Lance Ulanoff is prolific US editor-in-chief for TechRadar. On February 25, 2023, he published an article titled: ChatGPT showed me Read More...

“And no one can talk to a horse of course.” Wrong!

May 18, 2023May 18, 2023

Fifty-seven years after the hit show Mister Ed went off the air, and 53 years after Bamboo Harvester (Ed) died, something Read More...

The last of the three-dot journalists.

April 21, 2023April 21, 2023

On a whim last night, I did a Google search for a guy named Strange de Jim. Some older folks in the San Francisco Bay Area will know Read More...

“Unmarked graves out past Terlingua.”

April 6, 2023June 23, 2023

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Words + emotion + lies = propaganda. Meet Joseph Goebbels.

February 26, 2023March 24, 2023

“Propaganda is nothing other than the predecessor of an organization. Once there is an organization, it becomes the predecessor Read More...

If you start with a bang, you won’t end with a whimper.

T.S. Eliot

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

Keep a small can of WD-40 on your desk — away from any open flames — to remind yourself that if you don’t write daily, you will get rusty.

George Singleton

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

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

Stories are never too long or too short. They’re too interesting or too boring.

William Shawn

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Michael Burke

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

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

Matthew Arnold

The first chapter sells the book; the last chapter sells the next book.

Mickey Spillane

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

E. B. White

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

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