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Sharon W.

I absolutely love it. It was great! I read it five times or so and was happy with it. …I really enjoyed it and I want to get the next set under way! Thank you for taking such good care of my material and making it a great read! So far there is nothing I would change. Hope to here back from you today so we can continue on. Woohoo!

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

Clarence Budington Kelland

The character that lasts is an ordinary guy with some extraordinary qualities.

Raymond Chandler

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

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

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

G.K. Chesterton

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

E. B. White

I have long felt that any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has just put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae or banana split.

Kurt Vonnegut, Jr

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

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

Oscar Wilde

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

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

T.S. Eliot

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

C. J. Cherryh

I do not over-intellectualize the production process. I try to keep it simple: Tell the damned story.

Tom Clancy

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

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

I’m writing a book. I’ve got the page numbers done.

Stephen Wright

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

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

Stan Lee

Just don’t be boring!

Robert Liebmann

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