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How to write a book with a ghostwriter.

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

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

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

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

Substitute “damn” every time you’re inclined to write “very”; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.

Mark Twain

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

Jim Morrison

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

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

Good instincts usually tell you what to do long before your head has figured it out.

Michael Burke

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

Matthew Arnold

A writer is a world trapped in a person.

Victor Hugo

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

Every writer with half a brain knows to surround himself or herself with editors who are smarter, far more articulate and infinitely better looking.

Chris Claremont

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

William Goldman

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

Clarence Budington Kelland

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

C. J. Cherryh

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

Thomas Jefferson

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

Stephen Wright

In Hollywood, the woods are full of people that learned to write but evidently can’t read. If they could read their stuff, they’d stop writing.

Will Rogers