Because every
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Meet Cody Smart, screenwriter & script doctor.

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Robert A. Heinlein

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

Roald Dahl

Don’t annoy an author, you’ll end up in their book and you won’t look good.

Lawrence Wray

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

Joseph Conrad

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

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

A writer is a world trapped in a person.

Victor Hugo

Biography should be written by an acute enemy.

Arthur Balfour

The road to ignorance is paved with good editors.

George Bernard Shaw

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

Stephen King

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

William Shawn

Just don’t be boring!

Robert Liebmann

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

Stan Lee

Socially, a journalist fits in somewhere between a whore and a bartender. But spiritually he stands beside Galileo. He knows the world is round.

Sherman Reilly Duffy

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

Romulus Linney

Everybody walks past a thousand story ideas every day. The good writers are the ones who see five or six of them. Most people don’t see any.

Orson Scott Card

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

Clarence Budington Kelland

Writing a novel is like driving a car at night. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.

E. L. Doctorow

Anecdotes don’t make good stories. Generally, I dig down underneath them so far that the story that finally comes out is not what people thought their anecdotes were about.

Alice Munro