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 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.
Writing a novel is like driving a car at night. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.
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.
Writers aren’t people exactly. Or, if they’re any good, they’re a whole lot of people trying so hard to be one person.
It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn’t give it up because by that time I was too famous.
Writing has laws of perspective, of light and shade, just as painting does, or music. If you are born knowing them, fine. If not, learn them. Then rearrange the rules to suit yourself.
Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards.
The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
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.
My aim is to put down what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way I can tell it.
If you haven’t got an idea, start a story anyway. You can always throw it away, and maybe by the time you get to the fourth page you will have an idea, and you’ll only have to throw away the first three pages.
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.
Do you know what a playwright is? A playwright is someone who lets his guts hang out on the stage.
Reading and weeping opens the door to one’s heart, but writing and weeping opens the window to one’s soul.
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.

























