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.
Socially, a journalist fits in somewhere between a whore and a bartender. But spiritually he stands beside Galileo. He knows the world is round.
You may be able to take a break from writing, but you won’t be able to take a break from being a writer.
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.
My own experience is that once a story has been written, one has to cross out the beginning and the end. It is there that we authors do most of our lying.
If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.
Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamppost how it feels about dogs.
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.
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.
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.
A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
There are three primal urges in human beings: Food, sex, and rewriting someone else’s play.
If my poetry aims to achieve anything, it’s to deliver people from the limited ways in which they see and feel.
Everybody walks past a thousand story ideas every day. The good writers are the ones who see five or six of them. Most people don’t see any.
Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don’t feel I should be doing something else.
No writer has ever yet been known to hang himself as long as he had another chapter left.