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

Thomas Wolfe

Work on a computer that is disconnected from the Internet.

Zadie Smith

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

Lawrence Wray

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

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

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

A writer is a world trapped in a person.

Victor Hugo

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

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

Writing has laws of perspective, of light and shade, just as painting does, or music. If you are born knowing them, fine. If not, learn them. Then rearrange the rules to suit yourself.

Truman Capote Quote

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

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

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

Stephen Wright

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

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

Joseph Conrad

Stories are never too long or too short. They’re too interesting or too boring.

William Shawn

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

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

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

Edward Albee