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Video: Military ghostwriting opportunities.

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

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

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

William Shawn

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

Thomas Jefferson

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

Michael Burke

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

Mickey Spillane

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

Jodi Picoult

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

M. K. Simmons

Writing a novel is like driving a car at night. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.

E. L. Doctorow

It is perfectly okay to write garbage — as long as you edit brilliantly.

C. J. Cherryh

The road to ignorance is paved with good editors.

George Bernard Shaw

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

Jim Morrison

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

Dan Poynter

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

Joseph Conrad

A writer is a world trapped in a person.

Victor Hugo

Ever heard of a carpenter not going to work because he has “carpenter’s block”? If a writer can’t write, it’s because he doesn’t really want to, he isn’t ready to get it on paper or he’s just plain lazy.

Chet Cunningham

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

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

Easy reading is damn hard writing.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Every writer with half a brain knows to surround himself or herself with editors who are smarter, far more articulate and infinitely better looking.