By writing quickly we are not brought to write well, but by writing well we are brought to write quickly. — Quintilian Copy Share Image
Rewriting is the essence of writing well - where the game is won or lost. — William Zinsser 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
[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
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
There is no pleasure in the world like writing well and going fast. — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
You know you’re writing well when you're throwing good stuff into the wastebasket. — Ernest Hemingway 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
I do labor - it's part of the process. Writing is no easier today than it was in the beginning: writing well… — Nicholas Sparks 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
“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
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 may be writing well, I may be writing poorly, but I enjoy the act of writing and sometimes when it turns… — James Lipton 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
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 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
Writing well involves walking the path of most resistance. Sitting still, being patient, allowing the lunatic dream to take shape on the… — Dani Shapiro 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
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
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
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
It's easy to write something average or even something good. But writing well is quite challenging. — Nicholas Sparks 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
“Of writing well, be sure, the secret lies In wisdom :therefore study to be wise.” — Horace Copy Share Image
From writing rapidly it does not result that one writes well, but from writing well it results that one writes rapidly. — Quintilian Copy Share Image
Of all the arts in which the wise excel, nature's chief masterpiece is writing well. — Andre Breton 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 Copy Share Image
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