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Reading and weeping opens the door to one’s heart, but writing and weeping opens the window to one’s soul.

M. K. Simmons

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

Sidney Sheldon

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

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

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

Thomas Jefferson

The road to ignorance is paved with good editors.

George Bernard Shaw

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

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

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

Clarence Budington Kelland

Biography should be written by an acute enemy.

Arthur Balfour

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

Jodi Picoult

No one can write decently who is distrustful of the reader’s intelligence or whose attitude is patronizing.

E. B. White

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

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

Steven Bochco

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

Mickey Spillane

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

William Goldman

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

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

Matthew Arnold

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

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