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

T.S. Eliot

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

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

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

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.

John Campbell

Do not place a photograph of your favorite author on your desk, especially if the author is one of the famous ones who committed suicide.

Roddy Doyle

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

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

C. J. Cherryh

A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.

G.K. Chesterton

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

Lisa See

Easy reading is damn hard writing.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Reading and weeping opens the door to one’s heart, but writing and weeping opens the window to one’s soul.

M. K. Simmons

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

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

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

Stephen King

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

Stan Lee

If my poetry aims to achieve anything, it’s to deliver people from the limited ways in which they see and feel.

Jim Morrison

Do you know what a playwright is? A playwright is someone who lets his guts hang out on the stage.

Edward Albee

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

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.