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

Jim Morrison

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

Mickey Spillane

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

I do not over-intellectualize the production process. I try to keep it simple: Tell the damned story.

Tom Clancy

If you wait for inspiration to write, you’re not a writer. You’re a waiter.

Dan Poynter

The fact is, I don’t know where my ideas come from. Nor does any writer. The only real answer is to drink way too much coffee and buy yourself a desk that doesn’t collapse when you beat your head against it.

Douglas Adams

Work on a computer that is disconnected from the Internet.

Zadie Smith

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

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

Thomas Wolfe

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

Thomas Jefferson

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

Sidney Sheldon

I write the last line, and then I write the line before that. I find myself writing backwards for a while, until I have a solid sense of how that ending sounds and feels. You have to know what your voice sounds like at the end of the story, because it tells you how to sound when you begin.

John Irving

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

It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn’t give it up because by that time I was too famous.

Robert Benchley

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

Jodi Picoult

If the sex scene doesn’t make you want to do it — whatever it is they’re doing — it hasn’t been written right.

Sloan Wilson

Editor: A person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed.

Elbert Hubbard

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

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

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

Matthew Arnold