Sound judgment is the ground of writing well. — Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon Copy Share Image
Nature's chief masterpiece is writing well. — John Sheffield, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Normanby 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
You know you’re writing well when you're throwing good stuff into the wastebasket. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
There is no pleasure in the world like writing well and going fast. — Tennessee Williams 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
[On book promotion:] The reward for writing well appears to be not to be able to do it for a long time. — Rosellen Brown Copy Share Image
I think it's a short story writer's duty, as well as writing well about emotions and characters, to write story. — Eric Brown Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 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
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
One of the strangest things about writing well is that it requires two different zones in the brain--rigor and recklessness--simultaneously. — Carole Maso Copy Share Image
I used to think that if I had a choice between writing well and living well, I would choose the former. But… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
“Learn to write well and you will walk on water and turn wine into opium. You will speak a thousand new tongues… — Roman Payne 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
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
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
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
“...[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 Copy Share Image
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 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
Writing is hard work. A clear sentence is no accident. Very few sentences come out right the first time, or even the… — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“Woolf drew on her memories of her holidays in Cornwall for To the Lighthouse, which was conceived in part as an elegy… — Jane Goldman 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
“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
“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 Copy Share Image
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