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- Elizabeth Bowen

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

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

- Ray Bradbury

Beware of self-indulgence. The romance surrounding the writing profession carries several myths: that one must suffer in order to be creative; that one must be cantankerous and objectionable in order to be bright; that ego is paramount over skill; that one can rise to a level from which one can tell the reader to go to hell. These myths, if believed, can ruin you.

If you believe you can make a living as a writer, you already have enough ego.

- David Brin

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

The writer is important only by dint of the territory he colonizes.

- Van Wyck Brooks

Either a writer doesn't want to talk about his work, or he talks about it more than you want.

- Anatole Broyard

Sex almost always disappoints me in novels. Everything can be said or done now, and that's what I often find: everything, a feeling of generality or dispersal. But in my experience, true sex is so particular, so peculiar to the person who yearns for it. Only he or she, and no one else, would desire so very much that very person under those circumstances. In fiction, I miss that sense of terrific specificity.

- Anatole Broyard

Don't explain why it works; explain how you use it.

- Steven Brust

Literature is all, or mostly, about sex.

- Anthony Burgess

Style has always been in my mind the author's Self, the creative expression of that Self.

- Whit Burnett

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

If you write one story, it may be bad; if you write a hundred, you have the odds in your favor.

- Edgar Rice Burroughs

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- John Campbell
Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it.: - Truman Capote
I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.: - Truman Capote
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
Short stories are designed to deliver their impact in as few pages as possible. A tremendous amount is left out, and a good short story writer learns to include only the most essential information.: - Orson Scott Card
Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen.: - Willa Cather
Coleridge was a drug addict. Poe was an alcoholic. Marlowe was killed by a man whom he was treacherously trying to stab. Pope took money to keep a woman's name out of a satire then wrote a piece so that she could still be recognized anyhow. Chatterton killed himself. Byron was accused of incest. Do you still want to a writer--and if so, why?: - Bennett Cerf
If you look at anything long enough, say just that wall in front of you -- it will come out of that wall.: - Anton Chekhov
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
When men ask me how I know so much about men, they get a simple answer: everything I know about men, I learned from me.: - Anton Chekhov
It is perfectly okay to write garbage--as long as you edit brilliantly.: - C. J. Cherryh
Next to doing things that deserve to be written, nothing gets a man more credit, or gives him more pleasure than to write things that deserve to be read.: - Lord Chesterfield
I've always believed in writing without a collaborator, because when two people are writing the same book, each believes he gets all the worries and only half the royalties.: - Agatha Christie
I firmly believe every book was meant to be written.: - Marchette Chute
The spirit of creation is the spirit of contradiction. It is the breakthrough of appearances toward an unknown reality.: - Joan Cocteau
Every great and original writer, in proportion as he is great or original, must himself create the taste by which he is to be relished.: - Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Put down everything that comes into your head and then you're a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff's worth, without pity, and destroy most of it.: - Colette
My task...is, by the power of the written word to make you hear, to make you feel - it is, before all, to make you see. That - and no more - and it is everything.: - Joseph Conrad
Only in men's imagination does every truth find an effective and undeniable existence. Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.: - Joseph Conrad
A writer without interest or sympathy for the foibles of his fellow man is not conceivable as a writer.: - Joseph Conrad
There are three difficulties in authorship: to write anything worth publishing -- to find honest men to publish it -- and to get sensible men to read it.: - Charles Caleb Cotton
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
Most writers can write books faster than publishers can write checks.: - Richard Curtis

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- Ellen Datlow
In writing a series of stories about the same characters, plan the whole series in advance in some detail, to avoid contradictions and inconsistencies.: - L. Sprague de Camp
There is no mistaking the dismay on the face of a writer who has just heard that his brain child is a deformed idiot.: - L. Sprague de Camp
The imagination is the spur of delights...all depends upon it, it is the mainspring of everything; now, is it not by the means of the imagination one knows joy? Is it not of the imagination that the sharpest pleasures arise?: - Marquis DeSade
Every novel should have a beginning, a middle, and an end.: - Peter De Vries
I love being a writer. What I can't stand is the paperwork.: - Peter de Vries
Make everybody fall out of the plane first, and then explain who they were and why they were in the plane to begin with.: - Nancy Ann Dibble
Science fiction writers, I am sorry to say, really do not know anything. We can't talk about science, because our knowledge of it is limited and unofficial, and usually our fiction is dreadful.: - Philip K. Dick
A word is dead When it is said, Some say. I say it just begins to live that day.: - Emily Dickinson
Writers are always selling somebody out.: - Joan Didion
What we call fiction is the ancient way of knowing, the total discourse that antedates all the special vocabularies....Fiction is democratic, it reasserts the authority of the single mind to make and remake the world.: - E. L. Doctorow
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.