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Too often, self publishing means poor writing.

October 27, 2024

I just started reading a new book. It’s about the adventures of a Hollywood casting agent. By page 20, I encountered a lot of Read More...

A client offers praise to a deserving writer.

August 13, 2024August 14, 2024

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Writing inspiration!

Writing inspiration: There are various ways to be inspired. This cartoon, “Shoe,” was published on June 10, 2024. Cosmo Read More...

Stay true to your brand. So to speak.

February 25, 2024

I was nearly done reading a magazine about the world’s best whiskeys when I came upon this. I began laughing, and I was stone Read More...

Tony did not die at Holsten’s restaurant.

January 25, 2024January 26, 2024

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Now we know why some writers drink!

December 23, 2023December 23, 2023

There is a stereotype out there about writers. They’re talented and frustrated and hit the bottle way too often. Maybe the reason Read More...

An alleged SEO expert emailed me. This is what followed.

November 4, 2023November 4, 2023

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The descriptive powers of the great John Houseman.

September 27, 2023September 29, 2023

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The A.I. bot says: “Get out of the chair. Go have a drink. I’ll do the writing.”

July 24, 2023September 27, 2023

I recently read an article about how A.I. was supposed to reduce the workload of those in the world of writing. Instead, literary Read More...

The U.S. editor-in-chief of TechRadar.com tries to get ChatGPT to write a screenplay.

Lance Ulanoff is prolific US editor-in-chief for TechRadar. On February 25, 2023, he published an article titled: ChatGPT showed me Read More...

I write the last line, and then I write the line before that. I find myself writing backwards for a while, until I have a solid sense of how that ending sounds and feels. You have to know what your voice sounds like at the end of the story, because it tells you how to sound when you begin.

John Irving

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

Stephen Wright

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

Sidney Sheldon

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

M. K. Simmons

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

Roald Dahl

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

There are three primal urges in human beings: Food, sex, and rewriting someone else’s play.

Romulus Linney

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 road to ignorance is paved with good editors.

George Bernard Shaw

Ever heard of a carpenter not going to work because he has “carpenter’s block”? If a writer can’t write, it’s because he doesn’t really want to, he isn’t ready to get it on paper or he’s just plain lazy.

Chet Cunningham

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

Easy reading is damn hard writing.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

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

G.K. Chesterton

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 most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.

Thomas Jefferson

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

Mickey Spillane

Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards.

Robert A. Heinlein

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

E. B. White

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

Gloria Steinem