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November 19, 2015May 9, 2025 871

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.

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

Michael Burke

No writer has ever yet been known to hang himself as long as he had another chapter left.

Thomas Wolfe

A writer is a world trapped in a person.

Victor Hugo

Biography should be written by an acute enemy.

Arthur Balfour

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

A blank piece of paper is God’s way of telling us how hard it to be God.

Sidney Sheldon

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

Stan Lee

Socially, a journalist fits in somewhere between a whore and a bartender. But spiritually he stands beside Galileo. He knows the world is round.

Sherman Reilly Duffy

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

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

Lawrence Wray

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

Edward Albee

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

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

Lisa See

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

William Shawn

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

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

Thomas Jefferson

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

Joseph Conrad

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

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

T.S. Eliot

To me, movies and music go hand in hand. When I’m writing a script, one of the first things I do is find the music I’m going to play for the opening sequence.