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video the one big problem with freelance ghostwriters

Video: The one big problem with freelance ghostwriters.

Reading and weeping opens the door to one’s heart, but writing and weeping opens the window to one’s soul.

M. K. Simmons

The road to ignorance is paved with good editors.

George Bernard Shaw

Biography should be written by an acute enemy.

Arthur Balfour

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

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

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

It begins with a character, usually, and once he stands up on his feet and begins to move, all I can do is trot along behind him with a paper and pencil, trying to keep up long enough to put down what he says and does.

William Faulkner

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

G.K. Chesterton

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

Edward Albee

Every writer with half a brain knows to surround himself or herself with editors who are smarter, far more articulate and infinitely better looking.

Chris Claremont

Good instincts usually tell you what to do long before your head has figured it out.

Michael Burke

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

Stan Lee

Everybody walks past a thousand story ideas every day. The good writers are the ones who see five or six of them. Most people don’t see any.

Orson Scott Card

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

E. B. White

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

Jim Morrison

Writing a novel is like driving a car at night. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.

E. L. Doctorow

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

Stephen King

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

Raymond Chandler

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

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

Jeanette Walls