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

C. J. Cherryh

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

Joseph Conrad

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

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

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

Lawrence Wray

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

M. K. Simmons

You may be able to take a break from writing, but you won’t be able to take a break from being a writer.

Stephen Leigh

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

Dan Poynter

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

Stephen King

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

Jim Morrison

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

Robert A. Heinlein

Biography should be written by an acute enemy.

Arthur Balfour

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

Edward Albee

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

Thomas Jefferson

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

T.S. Eliot

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

G.K. Chesterton

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

Thank your readers and the critics who praise you, and then ignore them. Write for the most intelligent, wittiest, wisest audience in the universe: Write to please yourself.

Harlan Ellison

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

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