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Hal O.

Absolutely brilliant job amazingly done by your writer. His work exceeded all my expectations. Most importantly, he expressed deep interest in the story and didn’t do it just as a technical assignment, he truly got involved in the script. Always great communication and personal approach. Couldn’t be happier! Five stars!!

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

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

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

Tom Clancy

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

Dan Poynter

Writing has laws of perspective, of light and shade, just as painting does, or music. If you are born knowing them, fine. If not, learn them. Then rearrange the rules to suit yourself.

Truman Capote Quote

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

Clarence Budington Kelland

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

No writer has ever yet been known to hang himself as long as he had another chapter left.

Thomas Wolfe

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

Joseph Conrad

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

Lisa See

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

Sherman Reilly Duffy

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

Stephen King

Books aren’t written, they’re rewritten. Including your own. It is one of the hardest things to accept, especially after the seventh rewrite hasn’t quite done it.

Michael Crichton

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

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

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

Thomas Jefferson

You can always edit a bad page. You can’t edit a blank page.

Jodi Picoult

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

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

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.