Write Well Quotes

59 quotes by 53 authors

Your poems are of interest to mankind; your liver isn't. Drink till you write well and feel sick. Bless your poems and be damned to… — Fernando Pessoa
For a man to write well, there are required three necessaries: to read the best authors, observe the best speakers, and much exercise of his… — Ben Jonson
It is a fact often observed, that men have written good verses under the inspiration of passion, who cannot write well under other circumstances. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The face of nature and civilization in this our country is to a certain point a very sufficient literary field. But it will yield its… — Henry James
I love romantic comedies. I have a deep respect for them. I think they're really difficult to write and write well. — Rashida Jones
You might not write well every day, but you can always edit a bad page. You can't edit a blank page. — Jodi Picoult
When authors who write literary fiction begin to write screenplays, everybody assumes that's the end. Here's another who's never going to write well again. — Richard Russo
You need two things to remain very, very present. You need to continue to write well and engage yourself in the issues of the day.… — Bruce Springsteen
The only way to write well, so that people believe what we say and are interested or touched by it, is to slough off all… — Brenda Ueland
If you cannot write well, you cannot think well; if you cannot think well, others will do your thinking for you. — Oscar Wilde
The desire to write well can never be fulfilled without hard work. — Dean Koontz
To write well, express yourself like the common people, but think like a wise man. — Aristotle
The only good teachers for you are those friends who love you, who think you are interesting, or very important, or wonderfully funny; whose attitude… — Brenda Ueland
My only passions were books and music. As you might guess, I led a lonely lifeâ€¦ Not that I knew what I wanted in life… — Haruki Murakami
You can't write well what you don't read for pleasure. If it doesn't entertain you, it's not going to entertain anyone else. — Nora Roberts
To write well you must be willing to go naked into the world. — Daniel Keys Moran
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
(To The Youth) ...you know and everybody knows that life has failed to bring the light of hope to my eyes, draw a smile on… — Ali Shariati

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