By writing quickly we are not brought to write well, but by writing well we are brought to write quickly. — Quintilian Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Its not the fear of writing that blocks people, its fear of not writing well; something quite different. — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
Ultimately the product that any writer has to sell is not the subject being written about, but who he or she is. — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
You can't teach people to write well. Writing well is something God lets you do or declines to let you do. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
All the youth now in England of free men, who are rich enough to be able to devote themselves to it, be… — Alfred the Great Copy Share Image
My prescription for writer's block is to face the fact that there is no such thing… Writing well is difficult, but one… — Thomas Mallon Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
There is nothing more important than writing well for the young, if literature is to have a continuance ... They will inherit… — Jill Paton Walsh Copy Share Image
Rewriting is the essence of writing well: it's where the game is won or lost. The idea is hard to accept. We… — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
There is a great quote from a female writer. She said, 'If you don't break out in a sweat of fear when… — Sally Mann Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I would love to see writing taught online because at university like Yale, there are not enough teachers who are able to… — David Gelernter Copy Share Image
I don't believe in writer's block, writing well is very easy; it's writing horribly, the horrible work necessary to do to get… — Dean Young Copy Share Image
As to the differences between game work and novel writing, well, obviously the former is a lot less lonely - you're in… — Richard K. Morgan Copy Share Image
“Horace Greeley cautioned one upstate hopeful: “You do not realize how little the mere talent of writing well has to do with… — Mike Wallace Copy Share Image
Sound judgment is the ground of writing well. — Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon Copy Share Image
I've always had standards about writing well. There is art in this business. There is potentially great art. — Gay Talese Copy Share Image
When I'm writing well, I feel happy. And when I go too long without writing, I begin to implode. — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
It's easy to write something average or even something good. But writing well is quite challenging. — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
Writing well has everything to do with being able to read one's own work with an eye toward the unmet possibilities that… — Lucy Calkins Copy Share Image
Writing well means never having to say, 'I guess you had to be there.' — Jef Mallett Copy Share Image
“Be yourself and your readers will follow you anywhere. Try to commit an act of writing and they will jump overboard to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
With a television series, there's a hard deadline, and so you have to write even when you're not writing well. — Aaron Sorkin Copy Share Image
I love it, I hate it, it's ecstasy when I'm writing well, it's despair when I'm not. I wouldn't wish this life… — Jillian Medoff Copy Share Image
I don't read a lot of inspirational books for life. But for writing, I think the two best books are The War… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
Too indolent to bear the toil of writing; I mean of writing well; I say nothing about quantity. [Lat., Piger scribendi ferre… — Horace Copy Share Image
“I've probably put my 10,000 hours into writing, but I believe writing well is also greatly influenced by certain intangibles like mood… — Bill Loguidice Copy Share Image
“Writers say two things that strike me as nonsense. One is that you must follow an absolute schedule everyday. If you're not… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
Writing well is at one and the same time good thinking, good feeling, and good expression; it is having wit, soul, and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Writing isn't difficult. Writing well is difficult. What is most difficult is being with the interior experience that manifests as resistance to… — H Raven Rose Copy Share Image
I come from the world of theater, and I know Noel Coward's writing well. He has such a specific voice, and was… — Marielle Heller Copy Share Image
More of my songs are intended to be funny than almost anyone else. Sometimes maybe it cheers me up a bit. I've… — Randy Newman Copy Share Image
Muses are fickle, and many a writer, peering into the voice, has escaped paralysis by ascribing the creative responsibility to a talisman:… — Anne Fadiman Copy Share Image
I don't consider myself an artist necessarily, but craftsmen or people in the arts, their spiritualism is sort of when you're writing… — Al Franken Copy Share Image
I know well enough that very few people who are supposedly interested in writing are interested in writing well. They are interested… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
“You know, the immortality of the soul, free will and all that -- it's all very amusing to talk about up to… — Théophile Gautier Copy Share Image
“When I’m really entrenched in my writing, I seem to go through mini-writer’s block cycles that usually last a week or so.… — Stephanie Carroll Copy Share Image
I could give you absolutely sterling advice on how to avoid writing, how when you run out of things to do other… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
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