Sentences Quote by Josh Billings

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

— William Zinsser

“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

A lot of writers fall in love with their sentences or their construction of sentences, and sometimes that's great, but not everybody is Gabriel…

— James Patterson

I think writers are prone to hyperbole sometimes.

— John Legend

There is something unwholesome and destructive about the entire writing process.

— Joy Williams

Writers often torture themselves trying to get the words right. Sometimes you must lower your expectations and just finish it.

— Don Roff

There's always this sense of incredulity that writers feel, because they're usually living flat and ordinary lives, because they have to.

— Doris Lessing

In order really to write one has to sink deep into the self and become lost there.

— John Banville

So much of a novelist's writing, as I have said, takes place in the unconscious: in those depths the last word is written before…

— Graham Greene

It is impossible to discourage the real writers - they don't give a damn what you say, they're going to write.

— Sinclair Lewis

You know how sometimes you meet writers that are so full of themselves? They feel really proud that they wrote something . But what…

— Sandra Cisneros

“Sentences spoken by writers, unless they have been written out first, rarely say what writers wish to say. Writers are unlucky speakers, by and…

— Kurt Vonnegut Jr