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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

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

Clarence Budington Kelland

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

Stan Lee

The road to ignorance is paved with good editors.

George Bernard Shaw

Easy reading is damn hard writing.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

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

Dan Poynter

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

No writer has ever yet been known to hang himself as long as he had another chapter left.

Thomas Wolfe

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

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

There are three primal urges in human beings: Food, sex, and rewriting someone else’s play.

Romulus Linney

Don’t annoy an author, you’ll end up in their book and you won’t look good.

Lawrence Wray

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

Matthew Arnold

Everybody walks past a thousand story ideas every day. The good writers are the ones who see five or six of them. Most people don’t see any.

Orson Scott Card

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

Roald Dahl

Writing a novel is like driving a car at night. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.

E. L. Doctorow

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

Thomas Jefferson

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

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

Christopher Hampton

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