Because every
story begins
with words

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

William Shawn

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

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

Dan Poynter

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

Jim Morrison

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

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

Clarence Budington Kelland

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

Michael Burke

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

Joseph Conrad

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

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

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

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

Just don’t be boring!

Robert Liebmann

Easy reading is damn hard writing.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Don’t annoy an author, you’ll end up in their book and you won’t look good.

Lawrence Wray

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

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

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

Raymond Chandler

Biography should be written by an acute enemy.