Ears Quote by Barbara Tuchman

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

— Lauren Graham

Compose aloud: poetry is a sound. Never explain- your reader is as smart as you. Your reader is not just any reader, but is…

— Basil Bunting

“Good writing is like music. It has its distinctive rhythm, its pace, flow, cadence. It can be hummed. The great stylists seem to have…

— Leonard Ray Teel

“A good writer is also an avid reader. A good reader is also a vivid dreamer. A good dreamer is also a good learner.…

— Ana Claudia Antunes

“An essential element of being a writer is learning whom to listen to and whom to ignore where your work is concerned. Every”

— Ann Patchett

“one sign of a writer’s potential is his especially sharp ear—and eye—for language.”

— John Gardner

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

“To be a good writer, become a good listener.”

— Cynthia Briggs

A good writer is one you can read without breaking a sweat.

— Patricia T. O'Conner

It is also true that one can write nothing readable unless one constantly struggles to efface one's own personality. Good prose is like a…

— George Orwell

You know, as a writer, I'm more of a listener than a writer, cuz if I hear something I will write it down.

— Jimmy Buffett

I don't have an audience in mind when I write. I'm writing mainly for myself. After a long devotion to playwriting I have a…

— Tennessee Williams