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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.

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

The road to ignorance is paved with good editors.

George Bernard Shaw

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

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

Jodi Picoult

Socially, a journalist fits in somewhere between a whore and a bartender. But spiritually he stands beside Galileo. He knows the world is round.

Sherman Reilly Duffy

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.

Truman Capote Quote

Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don’t feel I should be doing something else.

Gloria Steinem

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.

Orson Scott Card

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

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

Thomas Jefferson

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

Christopher Hampton

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

G.K. Chesterton

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

Romulus Linney

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

Stan Lee

Do not place a photograph of your favorite author on your desk, especially if the author is one of the famous ones who committed suicide.

Roddy Doyle

Read a thousand books and your words will flow like a river.

Lisa See

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

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

Sidney Sheldon

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

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