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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.

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

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

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

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.

Elbert Hubbard

The road to ignorance is paved with good editors.

George Bernard Shaw

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

Roald Dahl

I have long felt that any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has just put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae or banana split.

Kurt Vonnegut, Jr

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

Robert A. Heinlein

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

Thomas Jefferson

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

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

Raymond Chandler

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

Dan Poynter

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

Sidney Sheldon

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

Jodi Picoult

I haven’t got 10 rules that guarantee success, though I promise I’d share them if I did. The truth is that I found success by stumbling off alone in a direction most people thought was a dead end, breaking all the 1990s shibboleths about children’s books in the process.

J.K. Rowling

The reason 99% of all stories written are not bought by editors is very simple. Editors never buy manuscripts that are left on the closet shelf at home.

John Campbell

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

Jeanette Walls

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

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.