Because every
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Video: Ghostwriter Reviews

Video: Ghostwriter reviews.

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

Raymond Chandler

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

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

Edward Albee

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

Christopher Hampton

No one can write decently who is distrustful of the reader’s intelligence or whose attitude is patronizing.

E. B. White

A writer without interest or sympathy for the foibles of his fellow man is not conceivable as a writer.

Joseph Conrad

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

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

T.S. Eliot

Easy reading is damn hard writing.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

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

Matthew Arnold

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

Lisa See

If my poetry aims to achieve anything, it’s to deliver people from the limited ways in which they see and feel.

Jim Morrison

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

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

William Goldman

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

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

Oscar Wilde

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

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

Jeanette Walls

Critics are people who sit on the mountaintop and look down on the battlefield. When the fighting is finished, they take it upon themselves to come down from the mountain and shoot the survivors.

Robert Altman

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