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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

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

Joseph Conrad

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

G.K. Chesterton

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

Thomas Jefferson

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

Lisa See

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

T.S. Eliot

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

Romulus Linney

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

Clarence Budington Kelland

Just don’t be boring!

Robert Liebmann

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

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

Robert A. Heinlein

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

Matthew Arnold

A blank piece of paper is God’s way of telling us how hard it to be God.

Sidney Sheldon

A writer is a world trapped in a person.

Victor Hugo

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

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

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

Stephen King

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

Christopher Hampton

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 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