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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

What I loved most about calling myself a reporter was that it gave me an excuse to show up anyplace.

Jeanette Walls

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Michael Burke

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

Steven Bochco

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

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

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

Lisa See

Easy reading is damn hard writing.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

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

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

Gloria Steinem

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

Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards.

Robert A. Heinlein

Just don’t be boring!

Robert Liebmann

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

E. B. White