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

William Shawn

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

Raymond Chandler

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

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

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

Roald Dahl

A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.

G.K. Chesterton

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

Edward Albee

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

M. K. Simmons

Work on a computer that is disconnected from the Internet.

Zadie Smith

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

Dan Poynter

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

Easy reading is damn hard writing.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Substitute “damn” every time you’re inclined to write “very”; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.

Mark Twain

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

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

Don’t annoy an author, you’ll end up in their book and you won’t look good.

Lawrence Wray

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

Just don’t be boring!

Robert Liebmann