Celebration Quote by Jesse Armstrong

There is a lot of censorship about writing that's exerted from all directions, from families or governments and society, even the fear of being…

— Alice Mattison

I suppose that writers should, in a way, feel flattered by the censorship laws. They show a primitive fear and dread at the fearful…

— John Mortimer

Few people realize how badly they write. Nobody has shown them how much excess or murkiness has crept into their style.

— William Zinsser

I think people make things a bit dense when they don't need to be.

— Andi Oliver

The act of sharing with readers was at first too much of an intimate thing. But it evolved into an intense necessity to share.

— Vera Nazarian

“[Referring to passage by Alice Munro] Finally, the passage contradicts a form of bad advice often given young writers -- namely, that the job…

— Francine Prose

It is the duty of the writer to describe.

— Virginia Woolf

In an age of unscrupulous and shameless book-making, it is a duty to give notice of the rubbish that cumbers the ground. There is…

— Richard Holt Hutton

“These 'Instructions' were held in high esteem as text-books and writing exercises in schools—a circumstance to which we owe the preservation of many of…

— Ptahhotep

I don't feel that I have to control every aspect of things that I appear in. You learn a lot performing someone else's writing.

— Steve Carell

I learned to distrust writers who talked about how they squeezed the blood onto the typewriter. They just don't want you to know how…

— Jules Feiffer

Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.

— Sinclair Lewis