Be you Quote by Clive James

Writing is the thing that pervades my whole day - I'm always wondering how I might describe something or improve my understanding. I'm constantly…

— Emma Healey

Be direct, simple, brief, vigorous, and lucid.

— Henry Watson Fowler

Be able to describe anything visual, such as a street scene, in words that convey your meaning.

— Marilyn vos Savant

Most good writing is clear, vigorous, honest, alive, sensuous, appropriate, unsentimental, rhythmic, without pretension, fresh, metaphorical, evocative in sound, economical, authoritative, surprising, memorable, and…

— Ken Macrorie

I usually think about titles. I'll hear somebody say something and write it down in my notes, and whenever we go into a room,…

— Kane Brown

You know that something is really well written when you have to think so little about the words that are coming out of your…

— Tom Weston-Jones

I'd like to be remembered by two simple words: any two words, as long as they're simple.

— Dan Mathews

I like to write things to be personal, so I just put what I'm thinking about at the time.

— Sofia Coppola

I like writing in an illustrative, descriptive way. I prefer describing to rather than explaining. One, I rarely have anything to say. It's much…

— Samuel Ervin Beam

One a very basic level, you are what you remember - your very identity depends on all of the events, people and places you…

— Richard Restak

I don't want to be remembered. I want the nice words when I can hear them.

— Jerry Lewis

An excellent precept for writers: Have a clear idea of all the phrases and expressions you need, and you will find them.

— Ximenes Doudan