Books Quote by Patricia T. O'Conner Download Open image “A good writer is one you can read without breaking a sweat.” — Patricia T. O'Conner ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Good writers Sweat Writing
Any decent writer writes because there's some deep internal need to keep learning. — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
A good writer is basically a story teller, not a scholar or a redeemer of mankind. — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
Unless you're a terribly bad writer, you are never going to have too many readers. — Andrew Wylie Copy Share Image
It is also true that one can write nothing readable unless one constantly struggles to efface one's own personality. Good prose is like a… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
If you want to be a good writer, make sure you read. I'm amazed by how many people don't bother to do that. — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
“An idea in your head is merely an idle notion. But an idea written down, that's the beginning of something! Stripped down to its… — Patricia T. O'Conner Copy Share Image
The transaction between writer and reader is human civilization's most dazzling feat, yet it's such a part of our lives that it's, well, prosaic. — Patricia T. O'Conner Copy Share Image
In many ways, the ability to read is the great divide that separates the very young from everyone else. Once we've joined the conspiracy… — Patricia T. O'Conner Copy Share Image
“If the good news from cyberspace is that we're writing more, the bad news is that most of us aren't very good at it.… — Patricia T. O'Conner Copy Share Image
“Whenever there's something wrong with your writing, suspect that there's something wrong with your thinking.” — Patricia T. O'Conner Copy Share Image
“A generation or so after slavery ended, segregationists enacted Jim Crow laws that made it impossible for most blacks to vote in the South.” — Patricia T. O'Conner Copy Share Image
“First, you need something to organize: ideas, material, scraps of expertise, recipes, prognostications, anecdotes, scurrilous gossip, anything that might be relevant to what you… — Patricia T. O'Conner Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.' — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.” — Kevin Ansbro Copy Share Image
“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.” — Christopher K. Krebs Copy Share Image
“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
