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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

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

Stan Lee

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

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

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

Stephen King

My aim is to put down what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way I can tell it.

Ernest Hemingway

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

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

Every writer with half a brain knows to surround himself or herself with editors who are smarter, far more articulate and infinitely better looking.

Chris Claremont

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

Biography should be written by an acute enemy.

Arthur Balfour

Easy reading is damn hard writing.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

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

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

Gloria Steinem

A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.

G.K. Chesterton

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

Sidney Sheldon

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

Mickey Spillane

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

Raymond Chandler

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 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.

William Faulkner