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Swiss universities cracking down on academic ghostwriters.

January 19, 2016July 21, 2023

We always turn down offers to ghostwrite “homework assignments” — and this article pretty much sums up why: Handing Read More...

Happy New Year from Ghostwriters Central!

December 30, 2015July 21, 2023

We’re winding up an excellent 2015 here at Ghostwriters Central. It’s been a busy year, complete with many projects, Read More...

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...

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

Christopher Hampton

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

Jim Morrison

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

Michael Burke

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

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

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

E. B. White

Just don’t be boring!

Robert Liebmann

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

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

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

Thomas Wolfe

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

Thomas Jefferson

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

Biography should be written by an acute enemy.

Arthur Balfour

I haven’t got 10 rules that guarantee success, though I promise I’d share them if I did. The truth is that I found success by stumbling off alone in a direction most people thought was a dead end, breaking all the 1990s shibboleths about children’s books in the process.

J.K. Rowling

It begins with a character, usually, and once he stands up on his feet and begins to move, all I can do is trot along behind him with a paper and pencil, trying to keep up long enough to put down what he says and does.

William Faulkner

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

Edward Albee

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

Jodi Picoult

A writer is a world trapped in a person.

Victor Hugo

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 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.