Language Quote by Betsey Lerner Download Open image ““...'good writing' means compelling ideas clothed in words.”” — Betsey Lerner ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Language Writing Writing advice
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 Copy Share Image
“Writing is physical work. It’s sweaty work. You can’t just will yourself to become a good writer. You really have to work at it.” — Will Haygood Copy Share Image
“Good writers are avid readers. They have absorbed a vast inventory of words, idioms, constructions, tropes, and rhetorical tricks,” — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
“Really good writing has purpose and that purpose should be to shape other minds to desire truth and a more noble purpose in life… — Susan Waterfield Copy Share Image
Writing well is at one and the same time good thinking, good feeling, and good expression; it is having wit, soul, and taste, all… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Good writing happens when human beings follow particular steps to take control of their sentences-to make their words do what they want them to… — Ralph Fletcher Copy Share Image
“On a good day, even writing can feel like a form of collecting—of gathering words, images, and ideas and arranging them in an order… — Amanda Petrusich Copy Share Image
Good writing is a kind of skating which carries off the performer where he would not go, and is only right admirable when to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I put myself in the student's place and remember the frustrations, doubts, determination, and desires I felt when I was going through the initial… — Ted Martinez Copy Share Image
Usually male directors have to use foul language to get the job done. But I never came down to that level as being a… — Divya Khosla Kumar Copy Share Image
A man walks down the street. It's a street in a strange world. Maybe it's the third world. Maybe it's his first time around.… — Paul Simon Copy Share Image
It's like saying French shouldn't be taught because you don't understand it because it's new. Shakespeare is just like learning a new, exciting language. — Samuel Barnett Copy Share Image
I am attracted to looking at the different things language can mean even in one sometimes quite ordinary utterance. Writing is partly about listening… — Rae Armantrout Copy Share Image
What is music? Music is language. A human being wants to express ideas in this language, but not ideas that can be translated into… — Anton Webern Copy Share Image
You're beautiful, cute, pretty, gorgeous, and fuck.. I ran out of words. — Raghib Clitso Copy Share Image
The world has a soul and whoever understands that soul can also understand the language of many things. — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“The words for what I want to say right now don't exist. Everything sounds…so cliché.” — Shelly Crane Copy Share Image
A man cannot speak but he judges himself. With his will or against his will he draws his portrait to the eye of his… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Words can kill you trust towards someone, mind you language people, every reaction had its consequence. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
