Because every
story begins
with words

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

Michael Burke

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

Stephen King

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

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

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

Steven Bochco

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

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

Oscar Wilde

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

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

Tom Clancy

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

Stan Lee

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

Thomas Jefferson

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

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

I’m writing a book. I’ve got the page numbers done.

Stephen Wright

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

Jeanette Walls

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

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

If you start with a bang, you won’t end with a whimper.

T.S. Eliot

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

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