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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

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

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

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

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

Biography should be written by an acute enemy.

Arthur Balfour

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

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

Christopher Hampton

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

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

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

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

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

G.K. Chesterton

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

Clarence Budington Kelland

Easy reading is damn hard writing.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

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

Gloria Steinem

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

William Shawn

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

Stephen Wright

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