Believe Quote by Brenda Ueland

...people today are so accustomed to pretentious nonsense that they see nothing amiss in reading without understanding, and many of them at length discover…

— George Albert Wells

I will never be heard for what I have to say. Why? People like cliches which I find a mediocre bore and I refuse…

— James Smith (me

One of my greatest pleasures in my writing has come from the thought that perhaps my work might annoy someone of comfortably pretentious position.…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

The trick to writing for people is, you have to be able to turn them on in your head. And know how they'd word…

— Dick Cavett

Writing is a great comfort to people like me, who are unsure of themselves and have trouble expressing themselves properly.

— Agatha Christie

You have to create the space for the possibility of people speaking as they do. If writing is supposed to lead us in any…

— Lynne Tillman

You know that sickening feeling of inadequacy and over-exposure you feel when you look upon your own empurpled prose? Relax into the awareness that…

— Will Self

I have always wanted to write in such a way that will make people think, Why, I've always thought that but never found the…

— Pamela Hansford Johnson

The purpose of writing is to inflate weak ideas, obscure pure reasoning, and inhibit clarity. With a little practice, writing can be an intimidating…

— Bill Watterson

“Each time you sit down to write, you should cleanse your linguistic palate by reading some things that are vastly unlike what you’ve been…

— Michael Erard

Writing gives you the illusion of control, and then you realize it's just an illusion, that people are going to bring their own stuff…

— David Sedaris

I don't like writing - it's so difficult to say what you mean. It's much easier to edit other people's writing and help them…

— Robert Gottlieb