Details Quote by Alejandro Zambra

What I don't write is as important as what I write.

— Jamaica Kincaid

“Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessay sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should…

— William Strunk Jr

“Prior knowledge is vital to comprehension because writers omit information.”

— Terry Marselle

It's very hard to articulate the things that are important about writing.

— Tim O'Brien

I see so many talented writers who have difficulties with that. And if you don't believe it's important, you won't put in the work…

— Theodora Goss

In prose, I think you sometimes have to write in very plain language, where every line may not seem to be so important, though…

— Grace Paley

Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should…

— William Strunk, Jr

Any writer knows that what's left out is as essential, if not more so, than what's there. Unlearning works that way.

— Lynne Tillman

No matter how wonderful a sentence is, if it doesn't add new and useful information, it should be removed.

— Kurt Vonnegut

It's much more important to write than to be written about.

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

The secret of good writing is to strip every sentence to its cleanest components,

— Anonymous

It's very important for a writer to be unnoticed, as quiet and unnoticed as possible.

— Edith Pearlman