Dictionary Quote by Kory Stamper

“The best writing is what's right in front of you. Sometimes I'd walk down the street with poets and they wouldn't see anything. I'd…

— Lawrence Ferlinghetti

“Writing is an act of ego, and you might as well admit it.”

— William Zinsser

“People certainly will love what you write, when you represent them in your words.”

— M.F. Moonzajer

“Never give your opinion on someone's writing unless they ask sincerely, and never ask for someone's opinion unless you're sincere.”

— Justin Alcala

“Sometimes it's impossible to say certain things ... Writing is something needed by man to share experience.”

— Arnost Lustig

“There is a point at which honesty becomes mischief. That's when your writing becomes irresistible.”

— Daphne Athas

“The worst mistake a writer can make is to assume everyone has an imagination.”

— Anonymous

“Writing turns you into somebody who's always wrong. The illusion that you may get it right someday is the perversity that draws you on.”

— Philip Roth

“How....will I ever truly depict you? You’re perfect, my writing isn’t.”

— Sanober Khan

“I think that the direction in which a writer should look is around.”

— Dorothy Parker

“Your writing advances a particular view of the world. Pretending that it does't just confuses everybody, starting with you.”

— Douglas Wilson

“Most authors would be the first to admit the best of their writing is beyond even them. It comes from someplace outside the conscious…

— K.M. Weiland