Post number one. Hi there!

19 Nov, 2015

Welcome to the Ghostwriters Central blog. This blog will be authored by me, for the time being. We do hope you will find it to be useful, informative or entertaining. Or all three. --Michael McKown.

Post number one. Hi there!

November 19, 2015July 21, 2023

Welcome to the Ghostwriters Central blog. This blog will be authored by me, for the time being. We do hope you will find it to be Read More...

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

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.

Michael Crichton

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

Steven Bochco

Writing a novel is like driving a car at night. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.

E. L. Doctorow

Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don’t feel I should be doing something else.

Gloria Steinem

It’s an accepted fact that all writers are crazy; even the normal ones are weird.

William Goldman

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

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

Mickey Spillane

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

Just don’t be boring!

Robert Liebmann

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

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

Raymond Chandler

Biography should be written by an acute enemy.

Arthur Balfour

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

I have a structured songwriting process. I start with the music and try to come up with musical ideas, then the melody, then the hook, and the lyrics come last.

John Legend

My aim is to put down what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way I can tell it.

Ernest Hemingway

Work on a computer that is disconnected from the Internet.

Zadie Smith

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

I get up in the morning, torture a typewriter until it screams, then stop.

Clarence Budington Kelland

Reading and weeping opens the door to one’s heart, but writing and weeping opens the window to one’s soul.