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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

Biography should be written by an acute enemy.

Arthur Balfour

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

Dan Poynter

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

The reason 99% of all stories written are not bought by editors is very simple. Editors never buy manuscripts that are left on the closet shelf at home.

John Campbell

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

Michael Burke

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

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

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

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

Thomas Wolfe

If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.

Oscar Wilde

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

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

Jeanette Walls

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

Stephen King

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

Thomas Jefferson

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

G.K. Chesterton

I have a structured songwriting process. I start with the music and try to come up with musical ideas, then the melody, then the hook, and the lyrics come last.

John Legend

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

Raymond Chandler

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.