Being smart Quote by Anonymous

Anytime I write something that's trying to be too smart, it doesn't work.

— Emeli Sande

Perhaps if I make myself write I shall find out what is wrong with me.

— Dodie Smith

I'm just smart enough to know what it is I don't know and try to learn as I go along and accept that you're…

— Ronald D. Moore

If you cannot write well, you cannot think well; if you cannot think well, others will do your thinking for you.

— Oscar Wilde

You want to be as smart as you can about being stupid.

— Mel Brooks

If you can't do something smart, do something right.

— Joss Whedon

There comes a point at which you stop writing and think all the more

— Gustave Flaubert

Don't worry about what anyone else thinks - write what you must.

— Carl Phillips

You have to have some kind of clarity or understanding of what's happening to write.

— Benjamin Booker

I've been smart enough to have lived my life stupidly.

— Faina Ranevskaya

You have to write badly in order to write well.

— William Faulkner

Things which any idiot could write usually have the quality of having been written by an idiot.

— Bram Cohen