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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.
If the sex scene doesn’t make you want to do it — whatever it is they’re doing — it hasn’t been written right.
What I loved most about calling myself a reporter was that it gave me an excuse to show up anyplace.
Every writer with half a brain knows to surround himself or herself with editors who are smarter, far more articulate and infinitely better looking.
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.
If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.
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.
Editor: A person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed.
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.
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.
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.
The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.

























