Ability Quote by Horace

Too indolent to bear the toil of writing; I mean of writing well; I say nothing about quantity. [Lat., Piger scribendi ferre laborem; Scribendi…

— Horace

You must be able to write. You must have a sense of form, of pattern, of design. You must have a respect for and…

— Ngaio Marsh

“[N]o such thing as objective writing, . . . every inscription, every traveler's tale, every news account, every piece of technical writing, tells more…

— Sue Hubbell

I have an object, a task, let me say the word, a passion. The profession of writing is a violent and almost indestructible one.

— George Sand

In a certain sense a writer is 'selected' by his subject - his subject being the consciousness of his own era.

— Nadine Gordimer

The reader is the content of any poem or of the language he employs, and in order to use any of these forms, he…

— Marshall McLuhan

Any one who wishes to become a good writer should endeavour, before he allows himself to be tempted by the more showy qualities, to…

— Henry Watson Fowler

There are two kinds of writers; the great ones who can give you truths, and the lessor ones, who can only give you themselves.

— Clifton Fadiman

You want what you write to be essential.

— Lisa Stansfield

“subjects. Directions. CHAPTER XIII CHOICE OF WORDS”

— Joseph Devlin

What you write chooses you.

— Terry Brooks

“… writing is always some form of interpretation, some form of translating the specificity of one’s roots or expertise or even one’s own mind…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates