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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

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

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

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

Edward Albee

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

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

Tom Clancy

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

Stephen Wright

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

Mickey Spillane

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

T.S. Eliot

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

Work on a computer that is disconnected from the Internet.

Zadie Smith

If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.

Oscar Wilde

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

Steven Bochco

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

Christopher Hampton

Editor: A person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed.

Elbert Hubbard

Do not place a photograph of your favorite author on your desk, especially if the author is one of the famous ones who committed suicide.

Roddy Doyle

It is only natural to pattern yourself after someone. But you can’t just copy someone. If you like someone’s work, the important thing is to be exposed to everything that person has been exposed to.

Bob Dylan

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

Matthew Arnold

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

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

Robert A. Heinlein