Because every
story begins
with words

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

Oscar Wilde

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

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

Substitute “damn” every time you’re inclined to write “very”; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.

Mark Twain

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

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

Sidney Sheldon

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

T.S. Eliot

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

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 writer is a world trapped in a person.

Victor Hugo

The road to ignorance is paved with good editors.

George Bernard Shaw

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

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

Just don’t be boring!

Robert Liebmann

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

C. J. Cherryh

No writer has ever yet been known to hang himself as long as he had another chapter left.

Thomas Wolfe

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

Easy reading is damn hard writing.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

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

William Shawn

It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn’t give it up because by that time I was too famous.

Robert Benchley