Books Quote by Dick Schaap Download Open image “My writing improved the more I wrote - and the more I read good writing, from Shakespeare on down.” — Dick Schaap ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Good writing Writing
Nothing improves your writing, I think, as much as your keeping writing. — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share Image
I think I began to like writing a lot more, and to be a better writer, when I did it for a while alone.… — Patricia Marx Copy Share Image
When I was younger, the main struggle was to be a 'good writer.' Now I more or less take my writing abilities for granted,… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
To try to write better than you do now is to risk rejection and failure. But not to risk those things in an insult… — LouAnne Johnson Copy Share Image
Being a good writer may result in your being nicer to more people, having a bigger positive impact. — Marty Nemko Copy Share Image
I think I became a better writer after I started writing for the New Yorker. Well, I know I did. And part of it… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
I'm a better writer now because I've worked very hard at getting better. My long-range goal will always be to write better books. — George Pelecanos Copy Share Image
I got into Shakespeare and all of that stuff in high school and then got out of it because it got too complicated. But… — Ro James Copy Share Image
While I do believe I become a technically better writer over time, in others ways writing gets harder because inspiration is finite. — Steve Erickson Copy Share Image
I came up with new leads for game stories by being observant and clever, by using the many gifts of the English language to… — Dick Schaap Copy Share Image
In fifty years of covering the sport, of course Muhammad Ali is by far the dominant figure. — Dick Schaap Copy Share Image
I think my mistakes were kind of common - leaning on cliches and adjectives in the place of clear, vivid writing. But at least… — Dick Schaap Copy Share Image
Sugar Ray and talked about doing some articles together or writing a book together but dealing with Sugar Ray was a lot like fighting… — Dick Schaap Copy Share Image
All of journalism is a shrinking art. So much of it is hype. The O.J. Simpson story is a landmark in the decline of… — Dick Schaap Copy Share Image
I think on balance, Don King has been bad for boxing. I think he's done some very good things and I think he did… — Dick Schaap Copy Share Image
It's kind of ironic that the two sports with the greatest characters, boxing and horse racing, have both been on the decline. In both… — Dick Schaap Copy Share Image
Today, it's money. There's no question about that. Unless you endorse a grill that cooks hamburgers and steaks, where else can you make the… — Dick Schaap Copy Share Image
Sugar Ray Leonard was as close as anyone came after Ali to being Ali, but he wasn't Ali. — Dick Schaap Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.' — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.” — Kevin Ansbro Copy Share Image
“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.” — Christopher K. Krebs Copy Share Image
“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image