Because every
story begins
with words

video what exactly is a “best-selling” ghostwriter?

What, exactly, is a “best-selling” ghostwriter?

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

Read a thousand books and your words will flow like a river.

Lisa See

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

Sidney Sheldon

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

Edward Albee

The reason 99% of all stories written are not bought by editors is very simple. Editors never buy manuscripts that are left on the closet shelf at home.

John Campbell

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

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

Romulus Linney

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

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

T.S. Eliot

Just don’t be boring!

Robert Liebmann

Thank your readers and the critics who praise you, and then ignore them. Write for the most intelligent, wittiest, wisest audience in the universe: Write to please yourself.

Harlan Ellison

Keep a small can of WD-40 on your desk — away from any open flames — to remind yourself that if you don’t write daily, you will get rusty.

George Singleton

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

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

Roald Dahl

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

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

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

Oscar Wilde

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

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

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