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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

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

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

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

Plot is, I think, the good writer’s last resort and the dullard’s first choice.

Stephen King

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

E. B. White

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

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

Mickey Spillane

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

Work on a computer that is disconnected from the Internet.

Zadie Smith

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

William Goldman

If you wait for inspiration to write, you’re not a writer. You’re a waiter.

Dan Poynter

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

Edward Albee

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

Romulus Linney

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

Thomas Jefferson

You may be able to take a break from writing, but you won’t be able to take a break from being a writer.

Stephen Leigh

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

Robert A. Heinlein

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

Roald Dahl

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

Just don’t be boring!

Robert Liebmann