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It is only natural to pattern yourself after someone. But you can’t just copy someone. If you like someone’s work, the important thing is to be exposed to everything that person has been exposed to.

Bob Dylan

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

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

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

If my poetry aims to achieve anything, it’s to deliver people from the limited ways in which they see and feel.

Jim Morrison

Work on a computer that is disconnected from the Internet.

Zadie Smith

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

T.S. Eliot

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

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

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

Edward Albee

Easy reading is damn hard writing.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

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

Stephen Wright

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

Christopher Hampton

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

Michael Burke

It’s an accepted fact that all writers are crazy; even the normal ones are weird.

William Goldman

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

Jodi Picoult

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

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

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

Tom Clancy

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

Matthew Arnold