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Brandon C.

Thank you, Deborah, so very much. It’s an awesome tribute to my late uncle and a beautiful song. It means a lot to me and I’m sure his daughters will love it also. Will Let you know if I make it on America’s Got Talent.

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

Jim Morrison

Good instincts usually tell you what to do long before your head has figured it out.

Michael Burke

No one can write decently who is distrustful of the reader’s intelligence or whose attitude is patronizing.

E. B. White

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

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

Stan Lee

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

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

Writing a novel is like driving a car at night. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.

E. L. Doctorow

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

William Shawn

Biography should be written by an acute enemy.

Arthur Balfour

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

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

G.K. Chesterton

The road to ignorance is paved with good editors.

George Bernard Shaw

It always comes down to characters, and individual stories about courage.

Steven Bochco

Critics are people who sit on the mountaintop and look down on the battlefield. When the fighting is finished, they take it upon themselves to come down from the mountain and shoot the survivors.

Robert Altman

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

Sidney Sheldon

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

Oscar Wilde

Every writer with half a brain knows to surround himself or herself with editors who are smarter, far more articulate and infinitely better looking.

Chris Claremont

If you wait for inspiration to write, you’re not a writer. You’re a waiter.