Because every
story begins
with words

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

Dan Poynter

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

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

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

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

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

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

Clarence Budington Kelland

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

Thank your readers and the critics who praise you, and then ignore them. Write for the most intelligent, wittiest, wisest audience in the universe: Write to please yourself.

Harlan Ellison

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

Socially, a journalist fits in somewhere between a whore and a bartender. But spiritually he stands beside Galileo. He knows the world is round.

Sherman Reilly Duffy

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

Raymond Chandler

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

Edward Albee

The fact is, I don’t know where my ideas come from. Nor does any writer. The only real answer is to drink way too much coffee and buy yourself a desk that doesn’t collapse when you beat your head against it.

Douglas Adams

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

Matthew Arnold

Reading and weeping opens the door to one’s heart, but writing and weeping opens the window to one’s soul.

M. K. Simmons

Read a thousand books and your words will flow like a river.

Lisa See

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

Stephen Wright

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

Jodi Picoult

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