- Robert McKee
- Michael Burke
- Stan Lee
- Dan Poynter
- Chris Claremont
- Thomas Wolfe
- William Shawn
- Michael Crichton
- Jim Morrison
- Edward Albee
- Sherman Reilly Duffy
- Arthur Balfour
- G.K. Chesterton
- Jeanette Walls
- Lawrence Wray
- Romulus Linney
- Chet Cunningham
- Bob Dylan
- Roddy Doyle
- Lisa See
- Victor Hugo
- Zadie Smith
- William Goldman
- Truman Capote Quote
- J.K. Rowling
- Oscar Wilde
- Steven Bochco
- Douglas Adams
- Joseph Conrad
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Robert Altman
- Matthew Arnold
- Robert Liebmann
- John Legend
- Stephen King
- John Campbell
- Robert A. Heinlein
- Tom Clancy
- Jodi Picoult
- Roald Dahl
- Orson Scott Card
- Anton Chekhov
- William C. Gault
- Raymond Chandler
- William Faulkner
- Harlan Ellison
- George Singleton
- Quentin Tarantino
- Gloria Steinem
- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr
- Sidney Sheldon
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
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- M. K. Simmons
- Ernest Hemingway
- T.S. Eliot
- Alice Munro
- Stephen Leigh
- Mark Twain
- C. J. Cherryh
- Elbert Hubbard
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- E. L. Doctorow
- Christopher Hampton
- E. B. White
- Neil Gaiman
- Thomas Jefferson
- Clarence Budington Kelland
- Will Rogers
- Sloan Wilson
- Mickey Spillane
- George Bernard Shaw
- Stephen Wright
William C. Gault
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.