Bad Quote by Morris Gleitzman

Those who write as they speak, even though they speak well, write badly.

— Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon

I sometimes think it is because they are so bad at expressing themselves verbally that writers take to pen and paper in the first…

— Gore Vidal

Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear.

— Ezra Pound

Good writing is good conversation, only more so.

— Ernest Hemingway

Good writing happens when human beings follow particular steps to take control of their sentences-to make their words do what they want them to…

— Ralph Fletcher

Writing was always a laborious thing for me. I never wrote fluently, I never wrote fluidly, there was something very awkward in my writing.…

— Vito Acconci

When you are a sentence-based writer, they have to be good. They have to be really on the spot. Because when you don't have…

— Per Petterson

So writing is not just writing. It is also having a relationship with other writers. And don't be jealous, especially secretly. That's the worst…

— Natalie Goldberg

I'm not a writer. I know a lot of writers; I know a handful of really excellent, great ones, and I know what they're…

— David Small

Writing is a form of talking, although writing is such an odd thing in and of itself. People go about it in such different…

— Errol Morris

Writing is a fine thing, because it combines the two pleasures of talking to yourself and talking to a crowd.

— Cesare Pavese

“Writers write. Period. No matter how hard it is. One word after another. Sometimes the sentences spill quickly from our fingertips, and other times…

— Debra Dixon