Personality Quote by George Orwell

A good writer is one you can read without breaking a sweat.

— Patricia T. O'Conner

There's a half-conscious state you enter when you're actually generating prose, and you are simply a better writer in that place. In fact it's…

— John Jeremiah Sullivan

The truth is, writing is this: hard and boring and occasionally great but usually not.

— Amy Poehler

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

“All writers are vain, selfish, and lazy, and at the very bottom of their motives there lies a mystery. Writing a book is a…

— George Orwell

Writing can come naturally to some. Still, when it comes to good writing, this is true: Easy reading is damn hard writing.

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

Fine writing is a distinct disadvantage. So is unique literary style. They take attention from the subject

— Claude C. Hopkins

I've found that writers who don't read really can't write.

— Sylvia Day

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

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

Great writing is great writing. It's as simple as all that.

— Kate Mulgrew

Good prose almost always requires both showing and telling, scenes and summary, the two basic components of creative prose.

— Laurie Alberts