Asks Quote by John Banville

“Writing keeps me at my desk, constantly trying to write a perfect sentence. It is a great privilege to make one’s living from writing…

— John Banville

Writing is the great invention of the world.

— Abraham Lincoln

What I like about writing is the sense of godlike power it gives you.

— Wilbur Smith

Written words still have the amazing power to bring out the best and worst of human nature

— Nadine Gordimer

Writing is the greatest thing that can happen to a human being. It's the best.

— Joss Whedon

“Do you know why God invented writers? Because he loves a good story. And he doesn't give a damn about the words. Words are…

— J.R. Moehringer

Our admiration of fine writing will always be in proportion to its real difficulty and its apparent ease.

— Charles Caleb Colton

Good writing happens when human beings follow particular steps to take control of their sentences-to make their words do what they want them to…

— Ralph Fletcher

No complaining about how hard it is to write, we are all so, so lucky to write, to sit down, inside, and write words…

— Isabel Allende

The secret of good writing is to strip every sentence to its cleanest components,

— Anonymous

No writing is a waste of time – no creative work where the feelings, the imagination, the intelligence must work. With every sentence you…

— Brenda Ueland

The first draft of everything, I write longhand. One of the nice things about that is that it makes you keep going. If you…

— Jonathan Dee