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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.

A true author, no matter the medium, is an artist with godlike knowledge of his subject, and the proof of his authorship is that his pages smack of authority.

Robert McKee

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.

Robert Benchley

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

I get up in the morning, torture a typewriter until it screams, then stop.

Clarence Budington Kelland

Work on a computer that is disconnected from the Internet.

Zadie Smith

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

Dan Poynter

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

E. B. White

Easy reading is damn hard writing.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

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.

John Legend

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

M. K. Simmons

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

Roald Dahl

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

Stephen King

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

Robert A. Heinlein

Don’t annoy an author, you’ll end up in their book and you won’t look good.

Lawrence Wray

Do you know what a playwright is? A playwright is someone who lets his guts hang out on the stage.

Edward Albee

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

Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamppost how it feels about dogs.

Christopher Hampton

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

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

Mickey Spillane

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