Accurate Quote by Ezra Pound

“Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear. It doesn't matter whether the…

— Ezra Pound

Good writing is clear. Talented writing is energetic. Good writing avoids errors. Talented writing makes things happen in the reader's mind---vividly, forcefully...

— Samuel R. Delany

When you combine something to say with the skill to say it properly, then you've got a good writer.

— Theodore Sturgeon

Good writing happens when human beings follow particular steps to take control of their sentences-to make their words do what they want them to…

— Ralph Fletcher

Bad writers are those who try to express their own feeble ideas in the language of good ones.

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

“Good writing is clear. Talented writing is energetic. Good writing avoids errors. Talented writing makes things happen in the reader’s mind — vividly, forcefully…

— Samuel R. Delany

Good writing comes from good talent.

— Leonardo da Vinci

I think a good writer is a mix of confidence (sure that what they're writing is going to appeal to their readers) and uncertainty…

— Charles de Lint

All the elements of good writing depend on the writer's skill in choosing one word instead of another.

— Francine Prose

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

— Steven Pinker

Good writers have two things in common: they prefer to be understood rather than admired; and they do not write for knowing and over-acute…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Clear writing is a sign of clear thinking. Great writers know how to communicate. They make things easy to understand.”

— Jason Fried