Post number one. Hi there!

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Post number one. Hi there!

November 19, 2015July 21, 2023 514

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.

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

Jeanette Walls

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

To me, movies and music go hand in hand. When I’m writing a script, one of the first things I do is find the music I’m going to play for the opening sequence.

Quentin Tarantino

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

Lawrence Wray

Just don’t be boring!

Robert Liebmann

I’m writing a book. I’ve got the page numbers done.

Stephen Wright

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

Dan Poynter

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

Jodi Picoult

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

Clarence Budington Kelland

It is perfectly okay to write garbage — as long as you edit brilliantly.

C. J. Cherryh

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

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

Michael Burke

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

A blank piece of paper is God’s way of telling us how hard it to be God.

Sidney Sheldon

Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamppost how it feels about dogs.

Christopher Hampton

Easy reading is damn hard writing.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

No one can write decently who is distrustful of the reader’s intelligence or whose attitude is patronizing.

E. B. White

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

Mickey Spillane

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