Write Well Quotes

59 quotes by 53 authors

Learn to write well, or not to write at all. — John Dryden
I've worked with genius performers. Sometimes they created great work with a bad script... but not often. Play it safe: write well. — Jerry Juhl
To write is to think, and to write well is to think well, — David McCullough
To write well and speak well is mere vanity if one does not live well. — Bridget of Sweden
Writing is thinking. To write well is to think clearly. That's why it's so hard. — David McCullough
It is the glory and merit of some men to write well and of others not to write at all. — Jean de la Bruyere
It's not so much that I write well, I just don't write badly very often and that passes for good on television. — Andy Rooney
Too many writers think that all you need to do is write well-but that's only part of what a good book is. Above all, a… — Nicholas Sparks
People who think well, write well — David Ogilvy
In Austria an editor who can write well is valuable, but he is not likely to remain so unless he can handle a sabre with… — Mark Twain
I donâ€™t think I write wellâ€”just better than anyone else, — Philip Larkin
Here we write well when we expose frauds and hypocrites. We are great at counting warts and blemishes and weighting feet of clay. In expressing… — Saul Bellow
You can't teach people to write well. Writing well is something God lets you do or declines to let you do. — Kurt Vonnegut
I wish I could write well enough to write about aircraft. Faulkner did it very well in Pylon but you cannot do something someone else… — Ernest Hemingway
If a poet has any obligation toward society, it is to write well. Being in the minority, he has no other choice. Failing this duty,… — Joseph Brodsky
I don't believe for one moment you can write well what you wouldn't read for pleasure. — Nora Roberts
Colleges and universities, for all the benefits they bring, accomplish far less for their students than they should. Many students graduate without being able to… — Derek Bok
An English journalist called Michael Viney told me when I was 25, that I would write well if I cared a lot what I was… — Maeve Binchy
We live in a moment and a culture when reading is really endangered. There's simply no way to write well, though, if you're not reading… — Jennifer Egan
You have to write badly in order to write well. — William Faulkner

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