Because every
story begins
with words

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

Stephen King

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

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

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

Lawrence Wray

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

The first chapter sells the book; the last chapter sells the next book.

Mickey Spillane

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

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

Edward Albee

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

Roald Dahl

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

Christopher Hampton

Biography should be written by an acute enemy.

Arthur Balfour

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

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

T.S. Eliot

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

William Goldman

I’m writing a book. I’ve got the page numbers done.

Stephen Wright

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

Jim Morrison

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

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

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

Thomas Wolfe

A true author, no matter the medium, is an artist with godlike knowledge of his subject, and the proof of his authorship is that his pages smack of authority.

Robert McKee