Because every
story begins
with words

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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

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

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

Christopher Hampton

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

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

Biography should be written by an acute enemy.

Arthur Balfour

Work on a computer that is disconnected from the Internet.

Zadie Smith

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

Stan Lee

In Hollywood, the woods are full of people that learned to write but evidently can’t read. If they could read their stuff, they’d stop writing.

Will Rogers

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

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

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

Mickey Spillane

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

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

What I loved most about calling myself a reporter was that it gave me an excuse to show up anyplace.

Jeanette Walls

Just don’t be boring!

Robert Liebmann

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

Edward Albee

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

Robert A. Heinlein

The road to ignorance is paved with good editors.

George Bernard Shaw

It is perfectly okay to write garbage — as long as you edit brilliantly.

C. J. Cherryh