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Video: Why you should hire an American writer.

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

Work on a computer that is disconnected from the Internet.

Zadie Smith

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

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

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

Stephen King

Just don’t be boring!

Robert Liebmann

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

William Goldman

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

Matthew Arnold

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

Biography should be written by an acute enemy.

Arthur Balfour

The road to ignorance is paved with good editors.

George Bernard Shaw

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

Thomas Wolfe

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

Don’t annoy an author, you’ll end up in their book and you won’t look good.

Lawrence Wray

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

Roald Dahl

Editor: A person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed.

Elbert Hubbard

To me, movies and music go hand in hand. When I’m writing a script, one of the first things I do is find the music I’m going to play for the opening sequence.

Quentin Tarantino

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

Easy reading is damn hard writing.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

A writer is a world trapped in a person.