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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.

Have something to say, and say it as clearly as you can. That is the only secret.

Matthew Arnold

You may be able to take a break from writing, but you won’t be able to take a break from being a writer.

Stephen Leigh

The road to ignorance is paved with good editors.

George Bernard Shaw

There are three primal urges in human beings: Food, sex, and rewriting someone else’s play.

Romulus Linney

I write the last line, and then I write the line before that. I find myself writing backwards for a while, until I have a solid sense of how that ending sounds and feels. You have to know what your voice sounds like at the end of the story, because it tells you how to sound when you begin.

John Irving

A blank piece of paper is God’s way of telling us how hard it to be God.

Sidney Sheldon

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

It always comes down to characters, and individual stories about courage.

Steven Bochco

If you start with a bang, you won’t end with a whimper.

T.S. Eliot

When writing a novel, that’s pretty much entirely what life turns into: “House burned down. Car stolen. Cat exploded. Did 1,500 easy words, so all in all it was a pretty good day.”

Neil Gaiman

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

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

Dan Poynter

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

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

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

Stan Lee

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

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

Michael Burke

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

Robert A. Heinlein

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.

Bob Dylan

Every writer with half a brain knows to surround himself or herself with editors who are smarter, far more articulate and infinitely better looking.