Good writing Quote by F. Scott Fitzgerald Download Open image “All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Good writing Swimming Water Writing
“All good writing is like swimming underwater and holding your breath.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
It often seems to me that the biggest single issue for a writer is how to stay buoyant enough to go on writing. How… — Janette Turner Hospital Copy Share Image
Writing is my breathe, so I breathe it everyday. Whatever your breathe is, breathe it deeply and consistently and live wholly. — Shirley Copy Share Image
“Sometimes when I prepare to write, I feel the same sensation wash over me as if my toes were curling over the brink of… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
You don't want to spend your time around people who make you hold your breath. You can't fill up when you're holding your breath.… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“If you’re not going to immerse yourself in your work as a writer then don’t write. But beware, if you’re a writer who does… — Jason E. Hodges Copy Share Image
“Writing is like breathing underwater. It's really hard to do unless you can imagine yourself a nice set of gills.” — Alane Adams Copy Share Image
“His dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“There was a ripe mystery about it, a hint of bedrooms upstairs more beautiful and cool than other bedrooms, of gay and radiant activities… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
I want you to take a red-hot bath as hot as you can bear it, and just relax your nerves. You can read in… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Tireless passion, fierce jealousy, longing to possess and crush-these alone were left of all his love for Rosalind; these remained to him as payment… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
I found something! Courage--just that; courage as a rule of life and something to cling to always. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“Another dawn flung itself across the river; a belated taxi hurried along the street, its lamps still shining like burning eyes in a face… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“She plucked a twig and broke it, but she found no spring in it.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“I'm one of those people who go through the world giving other people thrills but getting few myself except those I read into men… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
The Montana sunset lay between the mountains like a giant bruise from which darkened arteries spread across a poisoned sky. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“He was good looking, "sort of distinguished when he wants to be", had a line, and was properly inconstant. In fact, he summed up… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
My only close-to-game-plan is to follow good writing. If the writing is in TV or if it's in theater or in film, that's it.… — Adam Driver Copy Share Image
Inspiration comes from so many sources. Music, other fiction, the non-fiction I read, TV shows, films, news reports, people I know, stories I hear,… — Trudi Canavan Copy Share Image
I don't think that writing, real writing, has much to do with affirming belief--if anything it causes rifts and gaps in belief which make… — Brian Evenson Copy Share Image
“But the secret of good writing is to strip every sentence to its cleanest components. Every words that serves no function, every long word… — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
There is sometimes a feeling in crime fiction that good writing gets in the way of story. I have never felt that way. All… — John Connolly Copy Share Image
There is no royal path to good writing; and such paths as exist do not lead through neat critical gardens, various as they are,… — Jessamyn West Copy Share Image
Hypertext makes a virtue out of lack of organization, allowing ideas and thoughts to be juxtaposed at will. [...] The advent of hypertext is… — Donald A. Norman Copy Share Image
The very first thing I tell my new students on the first day of a workshop is that good writing is about telling the… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I think that's one of the maybe under-discussed aspects of process - the difference between a good writing day and a bad one is… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
Our tragedy today is a general and universal physical fear so long sustained by now that we can even bear it. There are no… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
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