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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

I get up in the morning, torture a typewriter until it screams, then stop.

Clarence Budington Kelland

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

T.S. Eliot

Reading and weeping opens the door to one’s heart, but writing and weeping opens the window to one’s soul.

M. K. Simmons

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

Sidney Sheldon

A writer is a world trapped in a person.

Victor Hugo

If you wait for inspiration to write, you’re not a writer. You’re a waiter.

Dan Poynter

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

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

Steven Bochco

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

William Shawn

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

Christopher Hampton

The character that lasts is an ordinary guy with some extraordinary qualities.

Raymond Chandler

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

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.

Quentin Tarantino

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

Do not place a photograph of your favorite author on your desk, especially if the author is one of the famous ones who committed suicide.

Roddy Doyle

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

Biography should be written by an acute enemy.

Arthur Balfour

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

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.