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

Matthew Arnold

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

Stephen King

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

G.K. Chesterton

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

A writer is a world trapped in a person.

Victor Hugo

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

T.S. Eliot

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

Roald Dahl

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

Just don’t be boring!

Robert Liebmann

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

William Goldman

It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn’t give it up because by that time I was too famous.

Robert Benchley

I have long felt that any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has just put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae or banana split.

Kurt Vonnegut, Jr

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

Sidney Sheldon

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

Steven Bochco

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

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

Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards.

Robert A. Heinlein

No writer has ever yet been known to hang himself as long as he had another chapter left.

Thomas Wolfe

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

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