Writing well Quotes · Page 2

Ultimately the product that any writer has to sell is not the subject being written about, but who he or she is.

— William Zinsser

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

— Ernest Hemingway

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

— Nicole Krauss

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

— James Franco

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

There is no pleasure in the world like writing well and going fast. It's like nothing else. It's like a love affair,…

— Tennessee Williams

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

— Quintilian

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

— Dani Shapiro

All writing is ultimately a question of solving a problem.

— William Zinsser

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

— Rosellen Brown

You can't teach people to write well. Writing well is something God lets you do or declines to let you do.

— Kurt Vonnegut

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

— Amy Joy

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

— Eric Brown

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

— Tennessee Williams

If I'm not writing well, I'm not happy. If I'm not spending enough time with my family, I'm not happy. If I'm…

— Harlan Coben

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

Its not the fear of writing that blocks people, its fear of not writing well; something quite different.

— Ritu Ghatourey

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

By writing quickly we are not brought to write well, but by writing well we are brought to write quickly.

— Quintilian

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

— Scott Berkun

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

— William Zinsser

“Rewriting is the essence of writing well:”

— William Zinsser

And when I'm writing well and when I'm inside the feeling, then I can do fairly complicated things with some fluency.

— Edward Hirsch

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

— Carole Maso

Nature's chief masterpiece is writing well.

— John Sheffield, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Normanby