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

C. J. Cherryh

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

Christopher Hampton

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

Robert A. Heinlein

If you start with a bang, you won’t end with a whimper.

T.S. Eliot

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

Work on a computer that is disconnected from the Internet.

Zadie Smith

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

Sidney Sheldon

Have something to say, and say it as clearly as you can. That is the only secret.

Matthew Arnold

A writer is a world trapped in a person.

Victor Hugo

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

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

Clarence Budington Kelland

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

Lisa See

The road to ignorance is paved with good editors.

George Bernard Shaw

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

William Goldman

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

Jim Morrison

I have a structured songwriting process. I start with the music and try to come up with musical ideas, then the melody, then the hook, and the lyrics come last.

John Legend

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

Romulus Linney

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

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