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If you have an idea that you genuinely think is good, don’t let some idiot talk you out of it.

Stan Lee

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

Matthew Arnold

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

William Shawn

A writer is a world trapped in a person.

Victor Hugo

Just don’t be boring!

Robert Liebmann

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

No writer has ever yet been known to hang himself as long as he had another chapter left.

Thomas Wolfe

There are three primal urges in human beings: Food, sex, and rewriting someone else’s play.

Romulus Linney

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

Read a thousand books and your words will flow like a river.

Lisa See

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

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

Socially, a journalist fits in somewhere between a whore and a bartender. But spiritually he stands beside Galileo. He knows the world is round.

Sherman Reilly Duffy

A blank piece of paper is God’s way of telling us how hard it to be God.

Sidney Sheldon

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

Dan Poynter

Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don’t feel I should be doing something else.

Gloria Steinem

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

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

Michael Burke

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

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.