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

Jodi Picoult

Work on a computer that is disconnected from the Internet.

Zadie Smith

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

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

William Goldman

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

G.K. Chesterton

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

Sidney Sheldon

The road to ignorance is paved with good editors.

George Bernard Shaw

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

William Shawn

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

Dan Poynter

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

Clarence Budington Kelland

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Just don’t be boring!

Robert Liebmann

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

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

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

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

The character that lasts is an ordinary guy with some extraordinary qualities.

Raymond Chandler

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

Writing has laws of perspective, of light and shade, just as painting does, or music. If you are born knowing them, fine. If not, learn them. Then rearrange the rules to suit yourself.

Truman Capote Quote