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A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.

G.K. Chesterton

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

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

It is perfectly okay to write garbage — as long as you edit brilliantly.

C. J. Cherryh

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 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

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

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

Clarence Budington Kelland

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

Raymond Chandler

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

Romulus Linney

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

Dan Poynter

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

E. B. White

I have a structured songwriting process. I start with the music and try to come up with musical ideas, then the melody, then the hook, and the lyrics come last.

John Legend

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

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

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

Sidney Sheldon

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

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

Plot is, I think, the good writer’s last resort and the dullard’s first choice.

Stephen King

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

Mickey Spillane