Good writing Quote by L.M. Montgomery

It's a bit cliche, but you can't go wrong by writing what you know. Even if you're a horrible writer, your own knowledge and…

— Issa Rae

The art of the quoter is to know when to stop.

— Robertson Davies

I know I have to stop. We all have to stop. Funny how knowing something's a bad idea doesn't make a difference.

— Sara Ryan

I don't think that writing, real writing, has much to do with affirming belief--if anything it causes rifts and gaps in belief which make…

— Brian Evenson

“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

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

“I keep going;I keep writing because I know something good will happen, and I want to see it when it happens.”

— Millicent Ashby

It's really important to visit a site you are writing about. Even if you know it well, even if you have lived there, it's…

— Marge Piercy

Often what happens with the writing is that you know where you want to start and you know where you want to end, but…

— Chris Chibnall

You know, there's always someone in mind when I'm writing. You know, it's all comes from somewhere inside.

— Dan Auerbach

I entered the literary world, really, from outside. My entire background has been in sciences; I was a biology major in college, then went…

— Khaled Hosseini

“Writing what you know" is about as much fun as having an affair with your spouse.”

— Gordon Highland

Nothing can be more limiting to the imagination than only writing about what you know

— John Gardner

When I'm writing, I know I'm doing the thing I was born to do.

— Anne Sexton

“I feign knowledge of writing: that I know something about it, that I should have learned something after all these years, that I might…

— Chila Woychik