Accidents Quote by Ernest Hemingway

“It wasn't by accident that the Gettysburg adress was so short. The laws of prose writing are immutable as those of flight, of mathematics,…

— Ernest Hemingway

It's very hard to articulate the things that are important about writing.

— Tim O'Brien

The scope of what I have to say determines the length of what I write.

— Edward M. Lerner

As a general rule, writing is very inconvenient.

— Shannon Hale

What can't be said can be written. Because writing is a silent act, a labor from the head to the hand.

— Herta Muller

Writing can be either readable or precise, but not at the same time.

— Bertrand Russell

Keep your paragraphs short. Writing is visual - it catches the eye before it has a chance to catch the brain.

— William Zinsser

The longer I carry on, the more difficult writing seems to get.

— W. G. Sebald

Writing comes more easily if you have something to say.

— Sholem Asch

All of these declarations of what writing ought to be, which I had myself-though, thank God I had never committed them to paper-I think…

— Jamaica Kincaid

You just have to keep getting out of your own way so that whatever it is that wants to be written can use you…

— Anne Lamott

I think the hardest part of writing anything is getting exposition out easily, without hitting people over the head with it.

— Jillian Bell