Writing well Quotes

“Of writing well, be sure, the secret lies In wisdom :therefore study to be wise.”

— Horace

Of all the arts in which the wise excel, nature's chief masterpiece is writing well.

— Andre Breton

There is no pleasure in the world like writing well and going fast.

— Tennessee Williams

The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite.

— Anonymous

You know you’re writing well when you're throwing good stuff into the wastebasket.

— Ernest Hemingway

Of writing well the source and fountainhead is wise thinking.

— Horace

It's hard for me to feel bad when I'm writing well.

— Meg Wolitzer

They say living well is the best revenge but sometimes writing well is even better.

— James Franco

Nobody told all the new e-mail writers that the essence of writing is rewriting. Just because they are writing with ease and…

— William Zinsser

I think it's a short story writer's duty, as well as writing well about emotions and characters, to write story.

— Eric Brown

From writing rapidly it does not result that one writes well, but from writing well it results that one writes rapidly.

— Quintilian

[On book promotion:] The reward for writing well appears to be not to be able to do it for a long time.

— Rosellen Brown

One of the strangest things about writing well is that it requires two different zones in the brain--rigor and recklessness--simultaneously.

— Carole Maso

Sometimes what I'm writing is more important to me than the rest of my life. It's more important to me that I'm…

— Randy Newman

I do labor - it's part of the process. Writing is no easier today than it was in the beginning: writing well…

— Nicholas Sparks

It’s not the fear of writing that blocks people, it’s fear of not writing well; something quite different.

— Scott Berkun

In the broadest possible sense, writing well means to communicate clearly and interestingly and in a way that feels alive to the…

— David Foster Wallace

Writing well involves walking the path of most resistance. Sitting still, being patient, allowing the lunatic dream to take shape on the…

— Dani Shapiro

There's no such thing as a writer's block. If you're having trouble writing, well, pick up the pen and write. No matter…

— Natalie Goldberg

Writing is hard work. A clear sentence is no accident. Very few sentences come out right the first time, or even the…

— William Zinsser

“Learn to write well and you will walk on water and turn wine into opium. You will speak a thousand new tongues…

— Roman Payne

I used to think that if I had a choice between writing well and living well, I would choose the former. But…

— Nicole Krauss

If the first requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite, the second is to put in your apprenticeship as…

— A. J. Liebling

The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite. Without this, it is impossible to accumulate, within the allotted…

— A. J. Liebling

“There’s something about writing that demands a leave-taking, an abandonment of the world, paradoxically, in order to see it clearly. This retreat…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

“...[T]he only means I have to stop ignorant snobs from behaving towards genre fiction with snobbish ignorance is to not reinforce their…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Writing well isn't just a question of winsome expression, but of having found something big and true to say and having found…

— Adam Gopnik

“You can be a member of all of the romance writers associations, take part in all of the networking available, or win…

— Kathryn Le Veque

“When George Plimpton asked Ernest Hemingway what the best training for an aspiring writer would be in a 1954 interview, Hem replied,…

— Hemingway, Ernest

“Amazing how the most obvious things escape your notice. Maybe the truth is exactly the things you don't notice. Maybe the aim…

— Richard Hell

“My best advice about writer’s block is: the reason you’re having a hard time writing is because of a conflict between the…

— Dan Harmon

There is no way of writing well and also of writing easily.

— Anthony Trollope

Nature's chief masterpiece is writing well.

— John Sheffield, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Normanby

Clutter is the disease of American writing,

— William Zinsser

Rewriting is the essence of writing well - where the game is won or lost.

— William Zinsser

All writing is ultimately a question of solving a problem.

— William Zinsser

“Rewriting is the essence of writing well:”

— William Zinsser

“Writing is easy. Writing well is hard work.”

— Amy Joy

I write every day. Even if I'm not writing well, I write through it. I can fix a bad page. I can't…

— Nora Roberts

I may be writing well, I may be writing poorly, but I enjoy the act of writing and sometimes when it turns…

— James Lipton