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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

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

Romulus Linney

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

E. B. White

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

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

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

I do not over-intellectualize the production process. I try to keep it simple: Tell the damned story.

Tom Clancy

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

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

Lisa See

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

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

Michael Burke

Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamppost how it feels about dogs.

Christopher Hampton

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

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 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

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

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

Roald Dahl

A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.

G.K. Chesterton

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

Stan Lee

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