Because every
story begins
with words

video ex-military writers for your novel, memoir or screenplay

Video: Ex-military writers for your novel, memoir or screenplay.

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

Tom Clancy

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

Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don’t feel I should be doing something else.

Gloria Steinem

The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.

Thomas Jefferson

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

Christopher Hampton

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

Jeanette Walls

A true author, no matter the medium, is an artist with godlike knowledge of his subject, and the proof of his authorship is that his pages smack of authority.

Robert McKee

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

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

Edward Albee

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

Roald Dahl

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

Sidney Sheldon

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

Matthew Arnold

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

Stephen Wright

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

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

Lisa See

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

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

Biography should be written by an acute enemy.

Arthur Balfour

A writer is a world trapped in a person.

Victor Hugo