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Suraj U.

Can you post this thank you on your website? I have achieved amazing success with your professional help. I am a total amateur, now a winning one. Ghostwriters Central has done it for me: Ten film festival screenwriting awards and finalist positions, three writing competition wins, beautiful reviews and publicity for my screenplay in three countries. Quick, reasonable and winning, to say the least. This is my first screenplay and your senior staffer wrote it for me so well I’m still getting CONGRATULATIONS emails. Your gift keeps on giving! I’ve only been submitting my script for four months, a total newbie. It’s unbelievable, incredible! Thank you for making 2013 my year for unexpected major success. I love you guys!

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

Keep a small can of WD-40 on your desk — away from any open flames — to remind yourself that if you don’t write daily, you will get rusty.

George Singleton

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

G.K. Chesterton

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

Jodi Picoult

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

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

I don’t care if a reader hates one of my stories, just as long as he finishes the book.

Roald Dahl

Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamppost how it feels about dogs.

Christopher Hampton

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

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

Stan Lee

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

Everybody walks past a thousand story ideas every day. The good writers are the ones who see five or six of them. Most people don’t see any.

Orson Scott Card

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

William Shawn

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

Stephen Wright

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

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

Gloria Steinem

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

Stephen King

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 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

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