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Arthur Balfour

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

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

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

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

T.S. Eliot

It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn’t give it up because by that time I was too famous.

Robert Benchley

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

Stephen Wright

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

William Shawn

What I loved most about calling myself a reporter was that it gave me an excuse to show up anyplace.

Jeanette Walls

It is perfectly okay to write garbage — as long as you edit brilliantly.

C. J. Cherryh

In Hollywood, the woods are full of people that learned to write but evidently can’t read. If they could read their stuff, they’d stop writing.

Will Rogers

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

Christopher Hampton

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

If you haven’t got an idea, start a story anyway. You can always throw it away, and maybe by the time you get to the fourth page you will have an idea, and you’ll only have to throw away the first three pages.

William C. Gault

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

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

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

Lawrence Wray

Easy reading is damn hard writing.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

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

Jodi Picoult

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