Creativity Quote by E. T. A. Hoffmann

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

— Steven Pinker

“A writer's style should be direct and personal, his imagery rich and earthy, and his words simple and vigorous. The greatest writers have the…

— Ernest Hemingway

“Often the things that pop out of my typewriter regale me, especially when I am trying to say something else and in a different…

— Tom Robbins

It is the compelling power of great thoughts and ideas to engender phrases of equal size.

— Aristophanes

“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

“I think a writer should always be surprised; and the more I write, the more it seems that the language itself, when explored with…

— Ciaran Carson

“If writing is thinking and discovery and selection and order and meaning, it is also awe and reverence and mystery and magic…Authors arrive at…

— Toni Morrison

“While I do see lots of repetitious writing among authors, that does not apply to all, and certainly not to me. Average minds think…

— Calvin W. Allison

“...perhaps the most acute source of happiness from writing was the happiness of expressing a very complicated idea–the kind of idea that takes hundreds…

— Gretchen Rubin

“There is nothing that requires more precision, and purity of expression, than to write in a familiar style,' as the great English essayist William…

— Matt Weiland

When you consider that there are a thousand ways to express even the simplest idea, it is no wonder writers are under a great…

— E. B. White

The more stringent the rules and the more limiting they are, the more the poet and writer is forced to resort to special techniques…

— Simin Behbahani