Accomplished Quote by Anne Bernays

At its best, the sensation of writing is that of any unmerited grace. It is handed to you, but only if you look for…

— Annie Dillard

Other people’s words are so important. And then without warning they stop being important, along with all those words of yours that their words…

— Zadie Smith

Writing should be an adventure, shrouded in mystery and uncertainty, blessed with amazing grace. In theory, of course

— Syd Field

“Good writers are avid readers. They have absorbed a vast inventory of words, idioms, constructions, tropes, and rhetorical tricks,”

— Steven Pinker

Good writing is always about things that are important to you, things that are scary to you, things that eat you up.

— John Edgar Wideman

Never expect what you write to be any good, 'cause it's the fear of writing badly that stops you from finding the right words.

— Kate Tempest

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

The style of writing required in the great world is distinguished by a free and daring grace, a careless security, a fine and sharp…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Writing is a marvelous adventure and very labor-intensive: those words run away and try to escape. They are very difficult to capture.

— Eduardo Galeano

The thing about good writing is it has a music to it.

— Lauren Graham

Writing is an affair of yearning for great voyages and hauling on frayed ropes.

— Israel Shenker

Good writers have two things in common: they prefer to be understood rather than admired; and they do not write for knowing and over-acute…

— Friedrich Nietzsche