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A screenwriting ghostwriter has an ethics problem.

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

Every writer with half a brain knows to surround himself or herself with editors who are smarter, far more articulate and infinitely better looking.

Chris Claremont

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

Jodi Picoult

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

Thomas Wolfe

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

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

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

Roald Dahl

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

Sidney Sheldon

It is perfectly okay to write garbage — as long as you edit brilliantly.

C. J. Cherryh

Easy reading is damn hard writing.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

The reason 99% of all stories written are not bought by editors is very simple. Editors never buy manuscripts that are left on the closet shelf at home.

John Campbell

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

William Shawn

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

Raymond Chandler

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

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

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

Thomas Jefferson

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

Clarence Budington Kelland

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

Edward Albee

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

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

Steven Bochco