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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

If my poetry aims to achieve anything, it’s to deliver people from the limited ways in which they see and feel.

Jim Morrison

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

Clarence Budington Kelland

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

Gloria Steinem

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

Edward Albee

The first chapter sells the book; the last chapter sells the next book.

Mickey Spillane

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

Jeanette Walls

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

Oscar Wilde

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

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

Dan Poynter

The fact is, I don’t know where my ideas come from. Nor does any writer. The only real answer is to drink way too much coffee and buy yourself a desk that doesn’t collapse when you beat your head against it.

Douglas Adams

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

Thomas Jefferson

Writing a novel is like driving a car at night. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.

E. L. Doctorow

If the sex scene doesn’t make you want to do it — whatever it is they’re doing — it hasn’t been written right.

Sloan Wilson

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

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

Thomas Wolfe

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

Sidney Sheldon

Easy reading is damn hard writing.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

I’m writing a book. I’ve got the page numbers done.

Stephen Wright

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

Romulus Linney