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Post number one. Hi there!

November 19, 2015July 21, 2023 470

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.

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

Clarence Budington Kelland

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

William Shawn

Plot is, I think, the good writer’s last resort and the dullard’s first choice.

Stephen King

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

Jeanette Walls

Critics are people who sit on the mountaintop and look down on the battlefield. When the fighting is finished, they take it upon themselves to come down from the mountain and shoot the survivors.

Robert Altman

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

C. J. Cherryh

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

If you have an idea that you genuinely think is good, don’t let some idiot talk you out of it.

Stan Lee

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

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

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

Christopher Hampton

Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it.

Truman Capote

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

Jodi Picoult

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

Roald Dahl

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

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

E. B. White

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

Keep a small can of WD-40 on your desk — away from any open flames — to remind yourself that if you don’t write daily, you will get rusty.

George Singleton

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

Raymond Chandler

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