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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.

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

Tom Clancy

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

I write the last line, and then I write the line before that. I find myself writing backwards for a while, until I have a solid sense of how that ending sounds and feels. You have to know what your voice sounds like at the end of the story, because it tells you how to sound when you begin.

John Irving

Just don’t be boring!

Robert Liebmann

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

Lisa See

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

Mickey Spillane

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

Robert A. Heinlein

A writer is a world trapped in a person.

Victor Hugo

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Gloria Steinem

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

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

M. K. Simmons

Work on a computer that is disconnected from the Internet.

Zadie Smith

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

T.S. Eliot

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

William Shawn

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

Thomas Wolfe

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

C. J. Cherryh

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

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.

Robert Altman

Every writer with half a brain knows to surround himself or herself with editors who are smarter, far more articulate and infinitely better looking.