Avoidance Quote by Martin Amis

I think each writer has to seek her most energetic prose style. She has to find a way to write so that nobody can…

— George Saunders

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

— Joy Williams

There is little pride in writers. They know they are human and shall some day die and be forgotten. Knowing all this a writer…

— William Saroyan

“...but I do very emphatically believe there is an enormous amount of the androgynous in any all-or-nothing prose writer, or even a would-be one.…

— J.D. Salinger

The writing you allude to is a form of dissent, but it's also expressive of the need to evolve beyond what is turgid and…

— Rachel Cusk

“We write to expose the unexposed. Most human beings are dedicated to keeping that one door shut. But the writer's job is to see…

— Ann Lamott

I will not adopt that ungenerous and impolitic custom so common with novel writers, of degrading by their contemptuous censure the very performances, to…

— Jane Austen

In truth, even if they have an imperfect insight into their own methods, I still slightly mistrust writers of fiction who are assured literary…

— Will Self

“All writing is rubbish. People who try to free themselves from what is vague in order to state precisely whatever is going on in…

— Antonin Artaud

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

— William Zinsser

“All writers are like bomb-throwers, whether they attack with dense academic prose or jazzy riffs of stream-of-consciousness writing.”

— Betsy Lerner

A lot of times you get people writing wonderful sentences and paragraphs, and they fall in love with their prose style, but the stories…

— James Patterson