Write Well Quotes

59 quotes by 53 authors

What I need to write well is a combination of heat, light and solitude. — A. S. Byatt
It isn't often that a writer of superlative skills knows enough about flying to write well about it. — Samuel Hynes
If you write well, you don't have to dress funny. — James Dickey
We cannot write well or truly but what we write with gusto. — Henry David Thoreau
Write quickly and you will never write well; write well, and you will soon write quickly. — Quintilian
By writing much, one learns to write well. — Robert Southey
Whether or not you write well, write bravely. — Bill Stout
Most new writers think it's easy to write for children, but it's not. You have to get in a beginning, middle and end, tell a… — Andrea Brown
You can write about anything, and if you write well enough, even the reader with no intrinsic interest in the subject will become involved. — Tracy Kidder
He that will write well in any tongue must follow this counsel of Aristotle: to speak as the common people do, to think as wise… — Roger Ascham
We can only write well about our sins because it is too difficult to recall a virtuous act or even whether it was the result… — Edward Dahlberg
Whatever you have lived, you can write & by hard work & a genuine apprenticeship, you can learn to write well; but what you have… — Mark Twain
It's a very romantic sentiment, but to think that you would die if you didn't write, well, I would definitely choose to not write and… — Sarah McLachlan
He who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things ought himself to be a true poem. — John Milton
To me to write well is to battle stereotypes. To write well is to create three-dimensional characters that seem human. — David Henry Hwang
The number of people who can copulate properly may be few; the number who can write well are infinitely fewer. — Hugh MacDiarmid
When talented people write badly, it's generally for one of two reasons: Either they're blinded by an idea they feel compelled to prove of they're… — Robert McKee
If a man means his writing seriously, he must mean to write well. But how can he write well until he learns to see what… — John Ciardi
To write well about the elegant world you have to know it and experience it to the depths of your being... what matters is not… — Italo Calvino
Learn to love the data and, for heaven's sake, write well. — Ian Lurie

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