Books Quote by Emma Walton Hamilton

To write, I think it is very important to read. The more you read, the more you know the techniques of writing.

— Sudha Murty

Writing well has everything to do with being able to read one's own work with an eye toward the unmet possibilities that are there.

— Lucy Calkins

Writing, for me, is an inherent part of understanding the material on a deeper level.

— Cary Fukunaga

“What's crucial is whether your writing attains the standards you've set for yourself. (...) Basically a writer has a quiet, inner motivation, and doesn't…

— Haruki Murakami

I think all good writing is a struggle. To write as well as you feel you can has to be a struggle, almost by…

— Jane Asher

Writing is a way of life. I do it because it's a way of experiencing the world, and trying to come to terms with…

— Emily Perkins

Whatever I'm doing, I try to write well. I try to give the reader a nice, clean well-written surface, where the writing is transparent.…

— Shelby Steele

A writer's problem does not change. It is always how to write truly and having found out what is true to project it in…

— Ernest Hemingway

It's hard work, writing, you know. Honestly, a fight every day against your own limitations. You have to squeeze books out of your brain,…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

“Good readers may struggle with a difficult text, but struggle is not the goal of reading. The goal is fluency. Meaning flows to the…

— Roy Peter Clark

I really think that reading is just as important as writing when you're trying to be a writer because it's the only apprenticeship we…

— John Green

Writing is like breathing, it's possible to learn to do it well, but the point is to do it no matter what.

— Julia Cameron