Because every
story begins
with words

video the one big problem with freelance ghostwriters

The one big problem with freelance ghostwriters.

Don’t annoy an author, you’ll end up in their book and you won’t look good.

Lawrence Wray

Work on a computer that is disconnected from the Internet.

Zadie Smith

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

Jodi Picoult

If you haven’t got an idea, start a story anyway. You can always throw it away, and maybe by the time you get to the fourth page you will have an idea, and you’ll only have to throw away the first three pages.

William C. Gault

Easy reading is damn hard writing.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

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

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

Clarence Budington Kelland

Biography should be written by an acute enemy.

Arthur Balfour

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

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

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

Matthew Arnold

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

Edward Albee

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

M. K. Simmons

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

Roald Dahl

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

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

Stephen King

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

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

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

Romulus Linney

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

Thomas Wolfe