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

Christopher Hampton

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

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

Stephen King

When writing a novel, that’s pretty much entirely what life turns into: “House burned down. Car stolen. Cat exploded. Did 1,500 easy words, so all in all it was a pretty good day.”

Neil Gaiman

My own experience is that once a story has been written, one has to cross out the beginning and the end. It is there that we authors do most of our lying.

Anton Chekhov

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

T.S. Eliot

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

Tom Clancy

The character that lasts is an ordinary guy with some extraordinary qualities.

Raymond Chandler

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

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

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

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

Stan Lee

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

Lawrence Wray

I write the last line, and then I write the line before that. I find myself writing backwards for a while, until I have a solid sense of how that ending sounds and feels. You have to know what your voice sounds like at the end of the story, because it tells you how to sound when you begin.

John Irving

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

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

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

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

Books aren’t written, they’re rewritten. Including your own. It is one of the hardest things to accept, especially after the seventh rewrite hasn’t quite done it.

Michael Crichton

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