...'good writing' means compelling ideas clothed in words.

Freedom is not being a slave to any circumstance, to any constraint, to any chance; it means compelling Fortune to enter the lists on…

— Anonymous

Rewrite and revise. Do not be afraid to seize what you have and cut it to ribbons ... Good writing means good revising.

— William Strunk, Jr

“Good writing just isn't that common.”

— Eric Flint

“The secret to good writing is to use small words for big ideas, not to use big words for small ideas.”

— Oliver Markus

“Good writing demands self-discipline and constant learning”

— Cecil Murphey

Get it down. Take chances. It may be bad, but that's the only way you can do anything really good.

— William Faulkner

“Most words come into being first in speech, then in private writing, and then in public, published writing, which means that if the date…

— Kory Stamper

The act of writing means you wish to communicate. Whether you're writing a memoir for yourself you put in a drawer, or you write…

— Harlan Ellison

Writing, for me, means humility. It’s a process that involves fear and doubt, especially if you’re writing honestly.

— Kiran Desai

“Formal writing does not mean gratuitously fancy writing; it means clear, clean, maximally considerate writing.”

— David Foster Wallace

My routine is to create activities for myself unrelated to writing that allow little time for writing. This means that when I do get…

— Anthony McCarten

Writing means revealing oneself to excess.

— Franz Kafka

“In all people I see myself, none more and not one a barleycorn less, And the good or bad I say of myself I…

— Walt Whitman

I'm not that guy who thinks I have all the answers. Writing is a means of communicating, and if enough people say, 'I don't…

— Noah Hawley

My pen.’ Funny, I wrote that without noticing. ‘The torch’, ‘the paper’, but ‘my pen’. That shows what writing means to me, I guess.…

— John Marsden