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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

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

Robert A. Heinlein

No writer has ever yet been known to hang himself as long as he had another chapter left.

Thomas Wolfe

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

Mickey Spillane

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

Joseph Conrad

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

Christopher Hampton

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

Jeanette Walls

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

The fact is, I don’t know where my ideas come from. Nor does any writer. The only real answer is to drink way too much coffee and buy yourself a desk that doesn’t collapse when you beat your head against it.

Douglas Adams

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

Romulus Linney

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

Tom Clancy

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

The road to ignorance is paved with good editors.

George Bernard Shaw

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

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

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

Clarence Budington Kelland

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

M. K. Simmons

Just don’t be boring!

Robert Liebmann

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.