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It is only natural to pattern yourself after someone. But you can’t just copy someone. If you like someone’s work, the important thing is to be exposed to everything that person has been exposed to.

Bob Dylan

Thank your readers and the critics who praise you, and then ignore them. Write for the most intelligent, wittiest, wisest audience in the universe: Write to please yourself.

Harlan Ellison

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

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

Mickey Spillane

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 my poetry aims to achieve anything, it’s to deliver people from the limited ways in which they see and feel.

Jim Morrison

I do not over-intellectualize the production process. I try to keep it simple: Tell the damned story.

Tom Clancy

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

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

Matthew Arnold

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

Thomas Wolfe

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

Just don’t be boring!

Robert Liebmann

If you wait for inspiration to write, you’re not a writer. You’re a waiter.

Dan Poynter

Good instincts usually tell you what to do long before your head has figured it out.

Michael Burke

Do you know what a playwright is? A playwright is someone who lets his guts hang out on the stage.

Edward Albee

Anecdotes don’t make good stories. Generally, I dig down underneath them so far that the story that finally comes out is not what people thought their anecdotes were about.

Alice Munro

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

William Shawn

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

Lisa See

A writer is a world trapped in a person.

Victor Hugo

You may be able to take a break from writing, but you won’t be able to take a break from being a writer.