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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

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

Gloria Steinem

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

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

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

Mickey Spillane

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

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

Just don’t be boring!

Robert Liebmann

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

C. J. Cherryh

I have a structured songwriting process. I start with the music and try to come up with musical ideas, then the melody, then the hook, and the lyrics come last.

John Legend

The road to ignorance is paved with good editors.

George Bernard Shaw

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

Sidney Sheldon

Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards.

Robert A. Heinlein

Easy reading is damn hard writing.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

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

Dan Poynter

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

Tom Clancy

A writer is a world trapped in a person.

Victor Hugo

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

Roald Dahl