Writers Quote by Cole Porter

Good authors, too, who once knew better words now only use four-letter words writing prose... anything goes.

— Cole Porter

“Good writers are avid readers. They have absorbed a vast inventory of words, idioms, constructions, tropes, and rhetorical tricks,”

— Steven Pinker

All the elements of good writing depend on the writer's skill in choosing one word instead of another.

— Francine Prose

There are so many good authors; there's no shortage of them.

— Jeanne Calment

Thank God for novelists. Thank God there are people willing to write everything down. Otherwise, so much would be forgotten.

— Kurt Vonnegut

Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear.

— Ezra Pound

Good writing comes from good talent.

— Leonardo da Vinci

A good writer is one you can read without breaking a sweat.

— Patricia T. O'Conner

You know, I think good writers write about what they know.

— Melody Gardot

Many an author will speak of writing, in his best work, more than he actually knows.

— Nancy Hale

When you combine something to say with the skill to say it properly, then you've got a good writer.

— Theodore Sturgeon

Good writers are visible just behind their words.

— William Zinsser