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Reading and weeping opens the door to one’s heart, but writing and weeping opens the window to one’s soul.

M. K. Simmons

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

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

Stephen King

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

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

Steven Bochco

A writer is a world trapped in a person.

Victor Hugo

To me, movies and music go hand in hand. When I’m writing a script, one of the first things I do is find the music I’m going to play for the opening sequence.

Quentin Tarantino

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

Thomas Jefferson

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

G.K. Chesterton

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

Sidney Sheldon

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

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

Robert A. Heinlein

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

Thomas Wolfe

Biography should be written by an acute enemy.

Arthur Balfour

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

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

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

Stephen Wright

The reason 99% of all stories written are not bought by editors is very simple. Editors never buy manuscripts that are left on the closet shelf at home.

John Campbell

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

Joseph Conrad