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Editor: A person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed.

Elbert Hubbard

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

Easy reading is damn hard writing.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

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

In Hollywood, the woods are full of people that learned to write but evidently can’t read. If they could read their stuff, they’d stop writing.

Will Rogers

Work on a computer that is disconnected from the Internet.

Zadie Smith

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

Michael Burke

A writer without interest or sympathy for the foibles of his fellow man is not conceivable as a writer.

Joseph Conrad

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

Jodi Picoult

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

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

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

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

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

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

Dan Poynter

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Edward Albee

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

Matthew Arnold

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

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.