Write Well Quotes
59 quotes by 53 authors
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What I need to write well is a combination of heat, light and solitude.
— A. S. Byatt
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It isn't often that a writer of superlative skills knows enough about flying to write well about it.
— Samuel Hynes
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If you write well, you don't have to dress funny.
— James Dickey
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We cannot write well or truly but what we write with gusto.
— Henry David Thoreau
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Write quickly and you will never write well; write well, and you will soon write quickly.
— Quintilian
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By writing much, one learns to write well.
— Robert Southey
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Whether or not you write well, write bravely.
— Bill Stout
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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To me to write well is to battle stereotypes. To write well is to create three-dimensional characters that seem human.
— David Henry Hwang
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The number of people who can copulate properly may be few; the number who can write well are infinitely fewer.
— Hugh MacDiarmid
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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
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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
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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
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Learn to love the data and, for heaven's sake, write well.
— Ian Lurie
Who Wrote These Write Well Quotes
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