First impression Quote by Jenny Baranick

“People approach writers, assuming we pull a perfect text out of our nose each time (well spelled). Spelling is the least of it.”

— Sara Levine

“we cannot escape showing who we are. What we write and how we express it gives away as much information as our dress sense,…

— Susan Feehan

I work at the sentences. Many of the things people find distinctive about my writing, I think of as natural.

— Anne Enright

“Most days, writing simply requires work-ethic, discipline, clarity, focus, time. Other days...it will demand absolutely everything of you.”

— Christy Hall

Writing is a great comfort to people like me, who are unsure of themselves and have trouble expressing themselves properly.

— Agatha Christie

“What's crucial is whether your writing attains the standards you've set for yourself. (...) Basically a writer has a quiet, inner motivation, and doesn't…

— Haruki Murakami

“Writing is a craft and needs constant practice.”

— Patricia Highsmith

“...writing surrounds us: it's not something we do just in school or on the job but something that is as familiar and everyday as…

— Andrea A. Lunsford

“Writing is about taking everyday observations, things which people see almost every day of their lives, and yet bringing it to their attention for…

— Jamie L. Harding

“Sometimes it's impossible to say certain things ... Writing is something needed by man to share experience.”

— Arnost Lustig

“Writing is about bringing words together to fullfill a purpose!!”

— Angela Y. Hodge

“One of the really bad things you can do to your writing is to dress up the vocabulary, looking for long words because you’re…

— Stephen King