Fine Quote by David Hume

Fine writing is a distinct disadvantage. So is unique literary style. They take attention from the subject

— Claude C. Hopkins

Our admiration of fine writing will always be in proportion to its real difficulty and its apparent ease.

— Charles Caleb Colton

“Addison writes with the ease of a gentleman. His readers fancy that a wise and accomplished companion is talking to them; so that ...…

— James Boswell

Addison writes with the ease of a gentleman. His readers fancy that a wise and accomplished companion is talking to them; so thathe insinuates…

— James Boswell

Every fine story must leave in the mind of the sensitive reader an intangible residuum of pleasure, a cadence, a quality of voice that…

— Willa Cather

A young writer is easily tempted by the allusive and ethereal and ironic and reflective, but the declarative is at the bottom of most…

— Garrison Keillor

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

“Clear writing is a sign of clear thinking. Great writers know how to communicate. They make things easy to understand.”

— Jason Fried

I'm a writer; I like to retain subtlety and nuance.

— Lois Lowry

Good writing must stay open to the questions and not fall prey to the pull of a polemic, otherwise, words simply become predictable, sentimental,…

— Terry Tempest Williams

No blur of inexactness, no cloud of vagueness, is allowable in good writing; from the first seeing to the last putting down, there must…

— Eudora Welty

Good writing is deceptive in that it hides its own artifice - it makes it seem easy.

— Michael Arndt