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

Thomas Wolfe

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

A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.

G.K. Chesterton

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

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

C. J. Cherryh

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

Sidney Sheldon

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

Stephen King

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

William Goldman

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

E. B. White

If the sex scene doesn’t make you want to do it — whatever it is they’re doing — it hasn’t been written right.

Sloan Wilson

Just don’t be boring!

Robert Liebmann

Anecdotes don’t make good stories. Generally, I dig down underneath them so far that the story that finally comes out is not what people thought their anecdotes were about.

Alice Munro

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

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

Roald Dahl

A writer is a world trapped in a person.

Victor Hugo

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

Thomas Jefferson

My own experience is that once a story has been written, one has to cross out the beginning and the end. It is there that we authors do most of our lying.

Anton Chekhov

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

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

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