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No writer has ever yet been known to hang himself as long as he had another chapter left.

Thomas Wolfe

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

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

C. J. Cherryh

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

Stephen King

I haven’t got 10 rules that guarantee success, though I promise I’d share them if I did. The truth is that I found success by stumbling off alone in a direction most people thought was a dead end, breaking all the 1990s shibboleths about children’s books in the process.

J.K. Rowling

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

Joseph Conrad

Do you know what a playwright is? A playwright is someone who lets his guts hang out on the stage.

Edward Albee

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

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

William Goldman

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

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

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

Robert A. Heinlein

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

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

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

Jeanette Walls

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

Matthew Arnold

Critics are people who sit on the mountaintop and look down on the battlefield. When the fighting is finished, they take it upon themselves to come down from the mountain and shoot the survivors.

Robert Altman

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

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

You may be able to take a break from writing, but you won’t be able to take a break from being a writer.

Stephen Leigh