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My aim is to put down what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way I can tell it.

Ernest Hemingway

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

Just don’t be boring!

Robert Liebmann

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

I do not over-intellectualize the production process. I try to keep it simple: Tell the damned story.

Tom Clancy

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

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

Jeanette Walls

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

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

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

Lisa See

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

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

Roald Dahl

It’s an accepted fact that all writers are crazy; even the normal ones are weird.

William Goldman

I have long felt that any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has just put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae or banana split.

Kurt Vonnegut, Jr

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

G.K. Chesterton

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

Edward Albee

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

Thomas Wolfe

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