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Zadie Smith

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

Easy reading is damn hard writing.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

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

Roald Dahl

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

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

Thomas Wolfe

When writing a novel, that’s pretty much entirely what life turns into: “House burned down. Car stolen. Cat exploded. Did 1,500 easy words, so all in all it was a pretty good day.”

Neil Gaiman

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

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

Do not place a photograph of your favorite author on your desk, especially if the author is one of the famous ones who committed suicide.

Roddy Doyle

Just don’t be boring!

Robert Liebmann

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

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

Jodi Picoult

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Jeanette Walls

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

The road to ignorance is paved with good editors.

George Bernard Shaw

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

Thomas Jefferson

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.