Accustomed Quote by Ezra Pound

Everyone has a certain amount of bad writing to get out of their system.

— Elif Batuman

Writing is a discipline: it's almost all about holding back.

— Rachel Cusk

Few people realize how badly they write. Nobody has shown them how much excess or murkiness has crept into their style.

— William Zinsser

To write well consists of continuously making small erosions, wearing away grammar in its established form, current norms of language. It is an act…

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

There is something unwholesome and destructive about the entire writing process.

— Joy Williams

When you write, you lay out a line of words. Soon you find yourself deep in new territory.

— Annie Dillard

The treasure of a writer is to maintain their own style.

— Andrea Hirata

Writing gives you the illusion of control, and then you realize it's just an illusion, that people are going to bring their own stuff…

— David Sedaris

Writing is a noble privilege compared with the lot of most people, who live like parts of a machine, who live only to keep…

— Blaise Cendrars

Writing is the delicate, difficult, and dangerous means of succeeding in avowing the unavowable.

— Helene Cixous

When writing becomes too dominant, it gets leached of its own power. We spend more and more time writing and we have less and…

— Julia Cameron

By the time you have perfected any style of writing, you have always outgrown it.

— George Orwell