Better Writing Quotes

“Making history was so much better than writing it.”

— Kate Quinn

The less conscious one is of being a writer, the better the writing.

— Pico Iyer

It's good to talk...its better if you have it in writing.

— Robert D Dangoor

I like myself better when I'm writing regularly.

— Willie Nelson

I'd like to become better at writing music by continuing to study it.

— Seungri

The better the writing, the easier it gets.

— Tim Roth

You can always find something better to do than writing when you're at home.

— John Cooper Clarke

writing about a writer's block is better than not writing at all

— Charles Bukowski

I just want to get better at writing songs. That's pretty much the only end goal for me. I really hope I…

— CMAT

“She no longer think that a situation could be made better by writing a poem about it.”

— David Nicholls

“Writing a list of ways I could be better and writing a suicide note are the same thing”

— Sierra Demulder

Working as an editor was like being a professional reader, and the better I became at reading the better I became at…

— Karen Thompson Walker

I'm really bad writing the chase scenes or fighting scenes. I'm much better for writing, like, a more melancholic or tragic music.

— Ryuichi Sakamoto

“...passive voice is better than writing out a humongous number and taking the risk that your readers' brains will be numb by…

— Mignon Fogarty

What I've learned is that you get better at writing by writing, and that 'youthful energy' will only get you so far.

— Lynn Coady

“I've discovered that sometimes writing badly can eventually lead to something better. Not writing at all leads to nothing.”

— Anna Quindlen

I take something that happened to me in 1983, and I make it happen to somebody else in 1943. I pick my…

— Rainbow Rowell

I won't say that writing is therapy, but for me, the act of writing is therapy. The ability to be productive is…

— Raymond E. Feist

Well, yes, as I was a rather bad actor then and I wasn't making enough money, I thought, to make enough money…

— Val Guest

I think one of the keys to better writing is releasing all of your ideas and to not be afraid. Dream big.…

— Adora Svitak

I feel like part of getting better at writing is knowing where to find that inspiration. Right after something happens to me,…

— Troye Sivan

“There’s nothing worse than writing. There’s nothing better than writing. It’s like the man you hate to love, love to hate and…

— Coco J. Ginger

I'm not an especially male novelist, but I think men are better at writing about men, and the same is true for…

— Justin Cartwright

Sometimes the better the writing, the harder it is to play because you really want to service it. It's hard to be…

— David Duchovny

I'm interested in the way that the language of labor has been suppressed in our culture, the way it has disappeared from…

— Naomi Wallace

“There’s more mystical nonsense written about the process of writing than almost anything. Inspiration, genius, “the muse.” So I want to lay…

— Charles Finch

The only wat to get better at writing is to write. And read.

— Stephen King

I wanted to get better at writing, so I knew I needed to move to Nashville.

— Cole Swindell

“Find I can get my point across a lot better writing them down”

— Kathryn Stockett

“Bad writing is better than no writing.”

— Dina Santorelli

My agent will say, 'Well, it's another graphic novel.' I don't care. It's better writing than anything else that's out there. The…

— Jeffrey Dean Morgan

Poems mesmerized me, and I felt better when I was writing them, or trying to - more in touch with something deep…

— Edward Hirsch

Sometimes the better the writing, the harder it is to play because you really want to service it.

— David Duchovny

Harry is much more conscientious than I am, and he's better at writing than I am.

— Paul Whitehouse

She had reached a turning point. She no longer believed that a situation could be made better by writing a poem about…

— David Nicholls

Just write, get better, keep writing, keep getting better. It's the only thing you can control.

— Roger Ebert

At least in my case, a very simple, regular, happy life makes for better writing.

— Lauren Groff

Twitter taught me how to become better at writing jokes because it forces you to chip away at all the extraneous words.

— Peter Serafinowicz

If there's anything I'm keen to get better at in my writing, then it's the writing of prose as opposed to the…

— David Nicholls

Sometimes, the better writing comes when the song speaks through me and tells me what the song wants to say.

— Rodney Crowell