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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

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

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

M. K. Simmons

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

Thomas Jefferson

I do not over-intellectualize the production process. I try to keep it simple: Tell the damned story.

Tom Clancy

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

Robert A. Heinlein

I have a structured songwriting process. I start with the music and try to come up with musical ideas, then the melody, then the hook, and the lyrics come last.

John Legend

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

Matthew Arnold

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

Writing has laws of perspective, of light and shade, just as painting does, or music. If you are born knowing them, fine. If not, learn them. Then rearrange the rules to suit yourself.

Truman Capote Quote

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

Jeanette Walls

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

Jodi Picoult

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

Steven Bochco

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

Substitute “damn” every time you’re inclined to write “very”; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.

Mark Twain

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

William Goldman

It is only natural to pattern yourself after someone. But you can’t just copy someone. If you like someone’s work, the important thing is to be exposed to everything that person has been exposed to.

Bob Dylan

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

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

William Shawn

The road to ignorance is paved with good editors.