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Work on a computer that is disconnected from the Internet.

Zadie Smith

When writing a novel, that’s pretty much entirely what life turns into: “House burned down. Car stolen. Cat exploded. Did 1,500 easy words, so all in all it was a pretty good day.”

Neil Gaiman

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

Michael Burke

Thank your readers and the critics who praise you, and then ignore them. Write for the most intelligent, wittiest, wisest audience in the universe: Write to please yourself.

Harlan Ellison

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

Raymond Chandler

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

T.S. Eliot

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

E. B. White

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

Roald Dahl

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

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

Edward Albee

A writer is a world trapped in a person.

Victor Hugo

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

Stephen Wright

Ever heard of a carpenter not going to work because he has “carpenter’s block”? If a writer can’t write, it’s because he doesn’t really want to, he isn’t ready to get it on paper or he’s just plain lazy.

Chet Cunningham

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

Steven Bochco

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

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

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

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

Oscar Wilde

Biography should be written by an acute enemy.