Because every
story begins
with words

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Read a thousand books and your words will flow like a river.

Lisa See

Anecdotes don’t make good stories. Generally, I dig down underneath them so far that the story that finally comes out is not what people thought their anecdotes were about.

Alice Munro

It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn’t give it up because by that time I was too famous.

Robert Benchley

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

Stephen Wright

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

Stephen King

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

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

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

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

M. K. Simmons

Ever heard of a carpenter not going to work because he has “carpenter’s block”? If a writer can’t write, it’s because he doesn’t really want to, he isn’t ready to get it on paper or he’s just plain lazy.

Chet Cunningham

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

Roald Dahl

Biography should be written by an acute enemy.

Arthur Balfour

It’s an accepted fact that all writers are crazy; even the normal ones are weird.

William Goldman

You can always edit a bad page. You can’t edit a blank page.

Jodi Picoult

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

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

Joseph Conrad

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 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