On Writing Quotes

I mean, you have a general tone of it but it's pretty much you get to come in and you're going to flip this car and it's going to blow up and you're going to come out on fire and you go oh, that's cool, and then you get paid a lot of money.

David R. Ellis

I write one page of masterpiece to ninety-one pages of shit. I try to put the shit in the wastebasket.

Ernest Hemingway

Story is honorable and trustworthy; plot is shifty, and best kept under house arrest.

Stephen King

Write without pay until somebody offers to pay.

Mark Twain

Your writing is never as good as you hoped; but never as bad as you feared.

Bertrand Russell

I'd love to write some porn, but I don't know if I have the right engines. When I was a young man and I was tempted to write porn, imaginary parents would appear over my shoulder and read what I was writing; just about the point that I managed to banish the imaginary parents, real children would lean over my shoulder and read what I was writing.

Neil Gaiman

If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot. There's no way around these two things that I'm aware of, no shortcut.

Stephen King

Grammar is...the pole you grab to get your thoughts up on their feet and walking.

Stephen King

A novel is never anything, but a philosophy put into images.

Albert Camus

The most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in, shockproof, shit detector.

Ernest Hemingway

I think the best stories always end up being about the people rather than the event, which is to say character-driven.

Stephen King