Adjectives Quote by Anne Bernays

Good writing is like a bomb: it explodes in the face of the reader.

— Nuruddin Farah

Good writing is full of surprises and novelties, moving in a direction you don't expect.

— Iris Murdoch

I think writers like to see how people bring their words to life, and it's always surprising. Always, no matter what, whether it's good…

— Lisa Edelstein

Make your novel readable. Make it easy to read, pleasant to read. This doesn't mean flowery passages, ambitious flights of pyrotechnic verbiage; it means…

— Laurence D'Orsay

Most good writing is clear, vigorous, honest, alive, sensuous, appropriate, unsentimental, rhythmic, without pretension, fresh, metaphorical, evocative in sound, economical, authoritative, surprising, memorable, and…

— Ken Macrorie

Surprise keeps the reader awake. The only alternative is to continue saying what the reader is expecting. What fun is that?

— Aaron Belz

I'm sure other writers have no difficulties writing nice.

— Justine Larbalestier

I'm not sure that niceness is what we should promote in writers.

— Lorrie Moore

One of the reasons I write is I like being surprised

— Anne Enright

Nothing is more satisfying than to write a good sentence. It is no fun to write lumpishly, dully, in prose the reader must plod…

— Barbara Tuchman

A writer has to surprise himself to be worth reading.

— Bernard Malamud

A piece of writing has to seduce the reader; it has to suspend disbelief and earn the reader's trust.

— Po Bronson