Advertising Quote by Martine Syms

Wordiness is a sickness of American writing. Too many words dilute and blur ideas.

— Eric Hoffer

No one will argue that writing is an easy profession. Getting someone to pay you for your words isn’t easy. But there are strategies…

— Ryan Holiday

“There are three elements of good writing: Effect, Eloquence, and Affect. One because economic use of words makes reading easy, another because it makes…

— Stephen Hagelin

Remember, a word is an invention, a symbol for an idea. Written text began as an artistic representation of a thought or event.

— Edward J. Fraughton

“Good writers are avid readers. They have absorbed a vast inventory of words, idioms, constructions, tropes, and rhetorical tricks,”

— Steven Pinker

I know a lot about words. I get paid to write stories, so I get to talk with people about the meaning behind words…

— Marti Noxon

Writing is a marvelous adventure and very labor-intensive: those words run away and try to escape. They are very difficult to capture.

— Eduardo Galeano

I just want to start writing, whether or not any of it is useable or marketable.

— Lisa Kudrow

Words are humanity's greatest natural resource, but most of us have trouble figuring out how to put them together. Words aren't cheap. They are…

— Katherine Paterson

“However, just like any line of work, writing is a negotiation, and creative control is as elusive as financial stability. I discovered that writing…

— Alice Driver

Words are the raw material out of which literature is crafted.

— Francine Prose

Words are the basic tools, if you are a writer.

— James Houston