Appreciate Quote by Constance Hale

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

— Ximenes Doudan

I'm a pretty decent writer. It comes easy to me. I don't agonize over sentences. I write like I talk. I try to make…

— Anthony Bourdain

When cafe life thrives, talk is a shared limberness of the mind that improves appetite for conversation: an adequate sentence maker is then made…

— Vivian Gornick

Whatever simplicity I've achieved in writing, I think I owe most of it to Jean Renoir and Hemingway: simple, declarative sentences. I've read some…

— Gene Wilder

I am not a great fan of serious, heavy writing. I prefer simple, short sentences, light on prose.

— Ravi Subramanian

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

— Steven Pinker

I have to really think hard about how to structure sentences, and do more mapping when I sit down to write, so it does…

— Daniel Alarcon

Words are the basic tools, if you are a writer.

— James Houston

“The single most important lesson is this: Focus on clarity. Concentrate on precisions. Don’t worry about constructing beautiful sentences. Beauty comes from meaning, not…

— David Gerald

The way to learn about a writer is to read the text. Or texts.

— Annie Dillard

The most important thing is to read as much as you can, like I did. It will give you an understanding of what makes…

— J. K. Rowling

Writers acquire their technique by spotting, savoring, and reverse-engineering examples of good prose.

— Steven Pinker