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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

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 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

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 one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.

Oscar Wilde

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

Jodi Picoult

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

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

Steven Bochco

Easy reading is damn hard writing.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

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

Lisa See

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

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

Jeanette Walls

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

Stephen King

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

Mickey Spillane

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

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

The character that lasts is an ordinary guy with some extraordinary qualities.

Raymond Chandler

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

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