Accidents Quote by Ken Macrorie

Most good writing is clear, vigorous, honest, alive, sensuous, appropriate, unsentimental, rhythmic, without pretension, fresh, metaphorical, evocative in sound, economical, authoritative, surprising, memorable, and…

— Ken Macrorie

Always have a plan and believe in it. I tell my coaches not to compromise. Nothing good happens by accident. There must be a…

— Chuck Knox

Our tragedy today is a general and universal physical fear so long sustained by now that we can even bear it. There are no…

— William Faulkner

Good writing is lean and confident.

— Anonymous

I think that's one of the maybe under-discussed aspects of process - the difference between a good writing day and a bad one is…

— George Saunders

The very first thing I tell my new students on the first day of a workshop is that good writing is about telling the…

— Anne Lamott

Hypertext makes a virtue out of lack of organization, allowing ideas and thoughts to be juxtaposed at will. [...] The advent of hypertext is…

— Donald A. Norman

Agents and publishers only want one thing - good writing.

— Jasper Fforde

David Mamet, Tim Kazurinsky, and Denise DeClue, who adapted [ About Last Night]. Between the three of them... I mean, it's always down to…

— Rob Lowe

There is no royal path to good writing; and such paths as exist do not lead through neat critical gardens, various as they are,…

— Jessamyn West

There is sometimes a feeling in crime fiction that good writing gets in the way of story. I have never felt that way. All…

— John Connolly

“But the secret of good writing is to strip every sentence to its cleanest components. Every words that serves no function, every long word…

— William Zinsser