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

Matthew Arnold

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 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

Books aren’t written, they’re rewritten. Including your own. It is one of the hardest things to accept, especially after the seventh rewrite hasn’t quite done it.

Michael Crichton

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

T.S. Eliot

A writer is a world trapped in a person.

Victor Hugo

Easy reading is damn hard writing.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Just don’t be boring!

Robert Liebmann

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Christopher Hampton

The road to ignorance is paved with good editors.

George Bernard Shaw

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

E. B. White

If my poetry aims to achieve anything, it’s to deliver people from the limited ways in which they see and feel.

Jim Morrison

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

Roald Dahl

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

Stephen Wright

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

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

Jodi Picoult

It begins with a character, usually, and once he stands up on his feet and begins to move, all I can do is trot along behind him with a paper and pencil, trying to keep up long enough to put down what he says and does.

William Faulkner

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