Because every
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video how we select our professional writers

Video: How we select our professional writers.

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A writer is a world trapped in a person.

Victor Hugo

If you haven’t got an idea, start a story anyway. You can always throw it away, and maybe by the time you get to the fourth page you will have an idea, and you’ll only have to throw away the first three pages.

William C. Gault

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

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

Thomas Jefferson

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

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

Joseph Conrad

My aim is to put down what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way I can tell it.

Ernest Hemingway

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

Jim Morrison

If you have an idea that you genuinely think is good, don’t let some idiot talk you out of it.

Stan Lee

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

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

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

William Goldman

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

G.K. Chesterton

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

I do not over-intellectualize the production process. I try to keep it simple: Tell the damned story.

Tom Clancy

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

William Shawn

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

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

Raymond Chandler