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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.

Truman Capote Quote

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.

E. L. Doctorow

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.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

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

T.S. Eliot

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

Roald Dahl

The road to ignorance is paved with good editors.

George Bernard Shaw

A writer without interest or sympathy for the foibles of his fellow man is not conceivable as a writer.

Joseph Conrad

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

Gloria Steinem

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

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

Sidney Sheldon

Socially, a journalist fits in somewhere between a whore and a bartender. But spiritually he stands beside Galileo. He knows the world is round.

Sherman Reilly Duffy

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

Clarence Budington Kelland

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

Jeanette Walls

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

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 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

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

Biography should be written by an acute enemy.

Arthur Balfour

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