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

E. B. White

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Stephen Wright

Just don’t be boring!

Robert Liebmann

Plot is, I think, the good writer’s last resort and the dullard’s first choice.

Stephen King

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

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

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

Lawrence Wray

What I loved most about calling myself a reporter was that it gave me an excuse to show up anyplace.

Jeanette Walls

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

Steven Bochco

The reason 99% of all stories written are not bought by editors is very simple. Editors never buy manuscripts that are left on the closet shelf at home.

John Campbell

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

William Shawn

Biography should be written by an acute enemy.

Arthur Balfour

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

The road to ignorance is paved with good editors.

George Bernard Shaw

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

William Goldman

My aim is to put down what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way I can tell it.

Ernest Hemingway

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

Sidney Sheldon

There are three primal urges in human beings: Food, sex, and rewriting someone else’s play.

Romulus Linney

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