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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

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

Roald Dahl

Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamppost how it feels about dogs.

Christopher Hampton

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

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

William Shawn

If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.

Oscar Wilde

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 true author, no matter the medium, is an artist with godlike knowledge of his subject, and the proof of his authorship is that his pages smack of authority.

Robert McKee

Have something to say, and say it as clearly as you can. That is the only secret.

Matthew Arnold

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

Romulus Linney

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

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

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

Raymond Chandler

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

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

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

Lisa See

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

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

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

Jodi Picoult

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

T.S. Eliot