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

Mickey Spillane

A writer is a world trapped in a person.

Victor Hugo

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

Stan Lee

No one can write decently who is distrustful of the reader’s intelligence or whose attitude is patronizing.

E. B. White

If you haven’t got an idea, start a story anyway. You can always throw it away, and maybe by the time you get to the fourth page you will have an idea, and you’ll only have to throw away the first three pages.

William C. Gault

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

Robert A. Heinlein

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

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

Thomas Wolfe

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

Thomas Jefferson

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

Steven Bochco

Editor: A person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed.

Elbert Hubbard

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

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

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

Raymond Chandler

It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn’t give it up because by that time I was too famous.

Robert Benchley

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

Critics are people who sit on the mountaintop and look down on the battlefield. When the fighting is finished, they take it upon themselves to come down from the mountain and shoot the survivors.

Robert Altman

Easy reading is damn hard writing.

Nathaniel Hawthorne