Post number one. Hi there!

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Post number one. Hi there!

November 19, 2015July 21, 2023 482

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.

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

G.K. Chesterton

Writers aren’t people exactly. Or, if they’re any good, they’re a whole lot of people trying so hard to be one person.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

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

Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it.

Truman Capote

Biography should be written by an acute enemy.

Arthur Balfour

Work on a computer that is disconnected from the Internet.

Zadie Smith

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

Gloria Steinem

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

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

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

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

Oscar Wilde

The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.

Thomas Jefferson

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

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

Steven Bochco

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

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

T.S. Eliot

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

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

Jodi Picoult

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

Joseph Conrad

It’s an accepted fact that all writers are crazy; even the normal ones are weird.

William Goldman