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Welcome to the Ghostwriters Central blog. This blog will be authored by me, for the time being. We do hope you will find it to be useful, informative or entertaining. Or all three. –Michael McKown.

I haven’t got 10 rules that guarantee success, though I promise I’d share them if I did. The truth is that I found success by stumbling off alone in a direction most people thought was a dead end, breaking all the 1990s shibboleths about children’s books in the process.

J.K. Rowling

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

Michael Burke

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

G.K. Chesterton

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

Stephen Wright

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

T.S. Eliot

Critics are people who sit on the mountaintop and look down on the battlefield. When the fighting is finished, they take it upon themselves to come down from the mountain and shoot the survivors.

Robert Altman

Don’t annoy an author, you’ll end up in their book and you won’t look good.

Lawrence Wray

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

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

William Shawn

Biography should be written by an acute enemy.

Arthur Balfour

The first chapter sells the book; the last chapter sells the next book.

Mickey Spillane

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

A writer is a world trapped in a person.

Victor Hugo

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

Christopher Hampton

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

Steven Bochco

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

Stan Lee

Work on a computer that is disconnected from the Internet.

Zadie Smith

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

Matthew Arnold

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

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