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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.

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

The first chapter sells the book; the last chapter sells the next book.

Mickey Spillane

A writer without interest or sympathy for the foibles of his fellow man is not conceivable as a writer.

Joseph Conrad

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

C. J. Cherryh

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

The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.

Thomas Jefferson

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

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

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

Raymond Chandler

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

Edward Albee

Have something to say, and say it as clearly as you can. That is the only secret.

Matthew Arnold

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

Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don’t feel I should be doing something else.

Gloria Steinem

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

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.

Douglas Adams

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

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

Stephen King

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

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

Sidney Sheldon

Socially, a journalist fits in somewhere between a whore and a bartender. But spiritually he stands beside Galileo. He knows the world is round.