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

T.S. Eliot

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

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

Ever heard of a carpenter not going to work because he has “carpenter’s block”? If a writer can’t write, it’s because he doesn’t really want to, he isn’t ready to get it on paper or he’s just plain lazy.

Chet Cunningham

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

Just don’t be boring!

Robert Liebmann

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

It is perfectly okay to write garbage — as long as you edit brilliantly.

C. J. Cherryh

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

Michael Burke

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

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

William Shawn

Do not place a photograph of your favorite author on your desk, especially if the author is one of the famous ones who committed suicide.

Roddy Doyle

Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don’t feel I should be doing something else.

Gloria Steinem

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

Mickey Spillane

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

Dan Poynter

Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamppost how it feels about dogs.

Christopher Hampton

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

A true author, no matter the medium, is an artist with godlike knowledge of his subject, and the proof of his authorship is that his pages smack of authority.

Robert McKee

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

Jodi Picoult

Writers aren’t people exactly. Or, if they’re any good, they’re a whole lot of people trying so hard to be one person.

F. Scott Fitzgerald