Writing Well Quotes
31 quotes by 27 authors
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Of all those arts in which the wise excel, Nature's chief masterpiece is writing well.
— Andre Breton
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Writing well is the best revenge.
— Dorothy Parker
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Writing well means never having to say, 'I guess you had to be there.'
— Jef Mallett
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I know well enough that very few people who are supposedly interested in writing are interested in writing well. They are interested in publishing something,…
— Flannery O'Connor
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The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite.
— A J Liebling
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Writing well involves walking the path of most resistance. Sitting still, being patient, allowing the lunatic dream to take shape on the page, then the…
— Dani Shapiro
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Writing well isn't just a question of winsome expression, but of having found something big and true to say and having found the right words…
— Adam Gopnik
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You know you’re writing well when you're throwing good stuff into the wastebasket.
— Ernest Hemingway
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There is no pleasure in the world like writing well and going fast. It's like nothing else. It's like a love affair, it goes on…
— Tennessee Williams
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It’s not the fear of writing that blocks people, it’s fear of not writing well; something quite different.
— Scott Berkun
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In the broadest possible sense, writing well means to communicate clearly and interestingly and in a way that feels alive to the reader. Where there’s…
— David Foster Wallace
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I could give you absolutely sterling advice on how to avoid writing, how when you run out of things to do other than going to…
— Tony Kushner
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If the first requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite, the second is to put in your apprenticeship as a feeder when…
— A J Liebling
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The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite. Without this, it is impossible to accumulate, within the allotted span, enough experience…
— A J Liebling
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From writing rapidly it does not result that one writes well, but from writing well it results that one writes rapidly.
— Quintilian
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You can't teach people to write well. Writing well is something God lets you do or declines to let you do.
— Kurt Vonnegut
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There's no such thing as a writer's block. If you're having trouble writing, well, pick up the pen and write. No matter what, keep that…
— Natalie Goldberg
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Rewriting is the essence of writing well - where the game is won or lost.
— William Zinsser
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Rewriting is the essence of writing well: it's where the game is won or lost. The idea is hard to accept. We all have emotional…
— William Zinsser
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Of writing well the source and fountainhead is wise thinking.
— Horace
Who Wrote These Writing Well Quotes
27 authors contributed a total of 31 Writing Well Quotes, led by these top contributors: