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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

It always comes down to characters, and individual stories about courage.

Steven Bochco

Good instincts usually tell you what to do long before your head has figured it out.

Michael Burke

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

Raymond Chandler

The road to ignorance is paved with good editors.

George Bernard Shaw

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

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

When writing a novel, that’s pretty much entirely what life turns into: “House burned down. Car stolen. Cat exploded. Did 1,500 easy words, so all in all it was a pretty good day.”

Neil Gaiman

Biography should be written by an acute enemy.

Arthur Balfour

I write the last line, and then I write the line before that. I find myself writing backwards for a while, until I have a solid sense of how that ending sounds and feels. You have to know what your voice sounds like at the end of the story, because it tells you how to sound when you begin.

John Irving

A writer is a world trapped in a person.

Victor Hugo

Have something to say, and say it as clearly as you can. That is the only secret.

Matthew Arnold

Keep a small can of WD-40 on your desk — away from any open flames — to remind yourself that if you don’t write daily, you will get rusty.

George Singleton

Stories are never too long or too short. They’re too interesting or too boring.

William Shawn

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

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

T.S. Eliot

If the sex scene doesn’t make you want to do it — whatever it is they’re doing — it hasn’t been written right.

Sloan Wilson

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

E. B. White

I’m writing a book. I’ve got the page numbers done.

Stephen Wright

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