It takes a heap of sense to write good nonsense

I think you often have that sense when you write--that if you can spot something in yourself and set it down on paper, you're…

— Nora Ephron

Then you develop a kind of critical sense about what you write. You can tell when something is good, but it would be just…

— James Dickey

In a larger sense, we all write our own destiny.

— Chanda Kochhar

Without a mission and a sense of whom you write for, you aren't worth reading.

— Steve Lopez

When in doubt, make no sense. No sense is good. And nonsense is good.

— Genesis P-Orridge

For as to the dispersing of Books, that Circumstance does perhaps as much harm as good: Since Nonsense flies with greater Celerity, and makes…

— David Hume

“Rest assured you make perfectly good nonsense.  I understand you one-hundred-percent not at all.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

Good nonsense is good sense in disguise.

— Josh Billings

“Do not be scared to do your good nonsense as it may seem to some people, out your good nonsense their is common sense…

— Osunsakin Adewale

Knighterrantry is a most chuckleheaded trade, and it is tedious hard work, too, but I begin to see that there is money in it,…

— Mark Twain

To demand 'sense' is the hallmark of nonsense. Nature does not make sense. Nothing makes sense.

— Ayn Rand

“To recognize bullshit, nose is better than ear.”

— Toba Beta

It's very hard to tell somebody how to write when they're so good, and they're a brilliant writer and a really good guy.

— Bonnie Hammer

If you ever read one of my books I hope you'll think it looks so easy. In fact, I wrote those chapters 20 times…

— Peter Carey

What I wanted in life always was to write something as good as 'Pinocchio.' I wanted to write. I wanted to evolve. I wanted…

— Patti Smith