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

Thomas Wolfe

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

Christopher Hampton

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

Stories are never too long or too short. They’re too interesting or too boring.

William Shawn

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

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

Jeanette Walls

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

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

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

G.K. Chesterton

A writer without interest or sympathy for the foibles of his fellow man is not conceivable as a writer.

Joseph Conrad

I haven’t got 10 rules that guarantee success, though I promise I’d share them if I did. The truth is that I found success by stumbling off alone in a direction most people thought was a dead end, breaking all the 1990s shibboleths about children’s books in the process.

J.K. Rowling

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

Roald Dahl

A writer is a world trapped in a person.

Victor Hugo

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

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Stephen Wright

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

Robert A. Heinlein

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

Raymond Chandler