Art Quote by John Ruskin

It is excellent discipline for an author to feel that he must say all he has to say in the fewest possible words, or…

— John Ruskin

Say all you have to say in the fewest possible words, or your reader will be sure to skip them; and in the plainest…

— John Ruskin

“It's not enough to know what all the words mean," he continued. "A good reader starts to see what an entire book is trying…

— Paul Acampora

Few things are more tempting to a writer than to repeat, admiringly, what he has said before

— John Kenneth Galbraith

“Writers are always scrapping one word for a better one. Regular people just say stuff, they don't replace there words ever. Its the only…

— Morgan Parker

A writer should write what he has to say and not speak it.

— Ernest Hemingway

Every writer has to write his speech.

— Kurt Vonnegut

“Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessay sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should…

— William Strunk Jr

“Always remember that writing is an alliance between author and reader. With every line we put down on the page, we need to leave…

— Hal Zina Bennett

“It is an old observation that the best writers sometimes disregard the rules of rhetoric. When they do so, however, the reader will usually…

— William Strunk Jr

“Very few authors, especially the unpublished, can resist an invitation to read aloud.”

— Truman Capote

“Good writers are avid readers. They have absorbed a vast inventory of words, idioms, constructions, tropes, and rhetorical tricks,”

— Steven Pinker