Post number one. Hi there!

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Post number one. Hi there!

November 19, 2015July 21, 2023 429

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.

A writer without interest or sympathy for the foibles of his fellow man is not conceivable as a writer.

Joseph Conrad

Just don’t be boring!

Robert Liebmann

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

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

Clarence Budington Kelland

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

Biography should be written by an acute enemy.

Arthur Balfour

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

Robert A. Heinlein

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

Edward Albee

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

A true author, no matter the medium, is an artist with godlike knowledge of his subject, and the proof of his authorship is that his pages smack of authority.

Robert McKee

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

William Goldman

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

Christopher Hampton

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

Stephen King

I do not over-intellectualize the production process. I try to keep it simple: Tell the damned story.

Tom Clancy

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

Thomas Wolfe

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

Raymond Chandler

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

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.

Mark Twain

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

Jeanette Walls

Writing has laws of perspective, of light and shade, just as painting does, or music. If you are born knowing them, fine. If not, learn them. Then rearrange the rules to suit yourself.