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

C. J. Cherryh

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

Roald Dahl

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

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

William Shawn

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

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

Just don’t be boring!

Robert Liebmann

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

Oscar Wilde

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

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

Jim Morrison

What I loved most about calling myself a reporter was that it gave me an excuse to show up anyplace.

Jeanette Walls

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

Robert A. Heinlein

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

Easy reading is damn hard writing.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

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

Jodi Picoult

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

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

Michael Burke

I have long felt that any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has just put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae or banana split.

Kurt Vonnegut, Jr

Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don’t feel I should be doing something else.

Gloria Steinem

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

T.S. Eliot