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Isabel G.

OMG! These words are so beautiful. You have brought tears to my eyes. I know these are my words, but just the way you put them on paper is outstanding! I cannot thank you enough! I am one happy bride!

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

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

It’s an accepted fact that all writers are crazy; even the normal ones are weird.

William Goldman

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

Steven Bochco

I write the last line, and then I write the line before that. I find myself writing backwards for a while, until I have a solid sense of how that ending sounds and feels. You have to know what your voice sounds like at the end of the story, because it tells you how to sound when you begin.

John Irving

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

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

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

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

Stephen King

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

Clarence Budington Kelland

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

Just don’t be boring!

Robert Liebmann

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

Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards.

Robert A. Heinlein

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

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

Lisa See

Biography should be written by an acute enemy.

Arthur Balfour

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

Matthew Arnold

Work on a computer that is disconnected from the Internet.

Zadie Smith

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