Back together Quote by David Mitchell

“People approach writers, assuming we pull a perfect text out of our nose each time (well spelled). Spelling is the least of it.”

— Sara Levine

“Writers are always scrapping one word for a better one. Regular people just say stuff, they don't replace there words ever. Its the only…

— Morgan Parker

“My parents were told by the principal of West Barnstable Elementary School and my teacher that I was a bright boy whose spelling was…

— Mark Vonnegut

“Academics identified by their peers as stylish writers for other reasons—their intelligence, humor, personal voice, or descriptive power—are invariably sticklers for well-crafted prose. Their…

— Helen Sword

It is true that writers often owe their most inspired thoughts, their most extraordinary phrases, to their generous typesetters, who assist their flights of…

— E. T. A. Hoffmann

[Louis] Brandeis improves the prose. He simplifies it and perfects the balance of the sentence so it becomes even more memorable and aphoristic.

— Jeffrey Rosen

At the beginning of their careers many writers have a need to overwrite. They choose carefully turned-out phrases; they want to impress their readers…

— Jorge Luis Borges

Too much rigidity on the part of teachers should be followed by a brisk spirit of insubordination on the part of the taught.

— Agnes Repplier

“I don’t believe in classes where students criticize each other’s manuscripts. Such criticism is generally composed in equal parts of ignorance, flattery, and spite.…

— Flannery O'Connor

It is excellent discipline for an author to feel that he must say all that he has to say in the fewest possible words,…

— John Ruskin

A recurring ideal, I find, is that of simplicity. At times there comes the desire to write with great precision and clarity, words so…

— R. S. Thomas

As a general rule, writing is very inconvenient.

— Shannon Hale