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Video: Ghostwriters for books!

If you're not comfortable with your writing skills, or your ability to structure a complex story, or you just don't have the time to write, you should hire a ghostwriter.

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

Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don’t feel I should be doing something else.

Gloria Steinem

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

Sidney Sheldon

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

In Hollywood, the woods are full of people that learned to write but evidently can’t read. If they could read their stuff, they’d stop writing.

Will Rogers

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

Dan Poynter

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

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

William Goldman

When writing a novel, that’s pretty much entirely what life turns into: “House burned down. Car stolen. Cat exploded. Did 1,500 easy words, so all in all it was a pretty good day.”

Neil Gaiman

Read a thousand books and your words will flow like a river.

Lisa See

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

If you start with a bang, you won’t end with a whimper.

T.S. Eliot

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

A writer is a world trapped in a person.

Victor Hugo

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

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

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

Matthew Arnold

Critics are people who sit on the mountaintop and look down on the battlefield. When the fighting is finished, they take it upon themselves to come down from the mountain and shoot the survivors.