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

Tom Clancy

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

Roald Dahl

Work on a computer that is disconnected from the Internet.

Zadie Smith

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

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

Sidney Sheldon

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

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

Dan Poynter

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

Clarence Budington Kelland

A writer is a world trapped in a person.

Victor Hugo

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.

William C. Gault

My own experience is that once a story has been written, one has to cross out the beginning and the end. It is there that we authors do most of our lying.

Anton Chekhov

If you have an idea that you genuinely think is good, don’t let some idiot talk you out of it.

Stan Lee

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

Raymond Chandler

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

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

Robert A. Heinlein

Books aren’t written, they’re rewritten. Including your own. It is one of the hardest things to accept, especially after the seventh rewrite hasn’t quite done it.

Michael Crichton

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

Easy reading is damn hard writing.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

There are three primal urges in human beings: Food, sex, and rewriting someone else’s play.

Romulus Linney

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.