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No one can write decently who is distrustful of the reader’s intelligence or whose attitude is patronizing.

E. B. White

Easy reading is damn hard writing.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

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

You can always edit a bad page. You can’t edit a blank page.

Jodi Picoult

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

Christopher Hampton

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

Edward Albee

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

Jim Morrison

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

C. J. Cherryh

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

Stan Lee

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

Roald Dahl

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

Jeanette Walls

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

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

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

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

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

It always comes down to characters, and individual stories about courage.

Steven Bochco

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

Joseph Conrad

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

William Goldman

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

Romulus Linney