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  • I try to create sympathy for my characters, then turn the monsters loose.

    Stephen King

  • Prose is architecture, not interior decoration.

    Ernest Hemingway

  • It’s none of their business that you have to learn to write. Let them think you were born that way.

    Ernest Hemingway

  • Most writers regard the truth as their most valuable possession, and therefore are most economical in its use.

    Mark Twain

  • And as imagination bodies forth the forms of things unknown, the poet’s pen turns them to shapes and gives to airy nothing a local habitation and a name.

    William Shakespeare

  • If you can tell stories, create characters, devise incidents, and have sincerity and passion, it doesn’t matter a damn how you write.

    Somerset Maugham

  • To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme.

    Herman Melville

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

    C. J. Cherryh

  • It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn’t give it up because by that time I was too famous.

    Robert Benchley

  • Any man who keeps working is not a failure. He may not be a great writer, but if he applies the old-fashioned virtues of hard, constant labor, he’ll eventually make some kind of career for himself as writer.

    Ray Bradbury

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

    Sidney Sheldon

  • Not that the story need be long, but it will take a long while to make it short.

    Henry David Thoreau

  • If you have other things in your life—family, friends, good productive day work—these can interact with your writing and the sum will be all the richer.

    David Brin

  • My own experience is that once a story has been written, one has to cross out the beginning and the end. It is there that we authors do most of our lying.

    Anton Chekhov

  • I have been successful probably because I have always realized that I knew nothing about writing and have merely tried to tell an interesting story entertainingly.

    Edgar Rice Burroughs

  • First, find out what your hero wants, then just follow him!

    Ray Bradbury

  • Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen.

    Willa Cather

  • I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.

    Douglas Adams

  • Words are a lens to focus one’s mind.

    Ayn Rand

  • Poetry creates the myth, the prose writer draws its portrait.

    Jean-Paul Sartre

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

    Joseph Conrad