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Just don’t be boring!

Robert Liebmann

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

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

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

Robert A. Heinlein

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

C. J. Cherryh

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

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

Lisa See

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

T.S. Eliot

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

Gloria Steinem

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

Stan Lee

I get up in the morning, torture a typewriter until it screams, then stop.

Clarence Budington Kelland

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

Romulus Linney

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

Easy reading is damn hard writing.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

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

Roald Dahl

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

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

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

Lawrence Wray

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

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