Writing Quote by Paul J. Silvia

Bad writers are those who try to express their own feeble ideas in the language of good ones.

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

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

— Ezra Pound

A good writer is basically a story teller, not a scholar or a redeemer of mankind.

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

Bad writing is bad not just because the language is humdrum, but the quality of the observation is so poor.

— Christopher Isherwood

“Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear. It doesn't matter whether the…

— Ezra Pound

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

— Steven Pinker

“Too many writers are trying to write with too shallow an education. Whether they go to college or not is immaterial...a good writer needs…

— James Kisner

“...a writer has the duty to be good, not lousy; true, not false; lively, not dull; accurate, not full of error. He should tend…

— E. B. White

Good writers have two things in common: they prefer to be understood rather than admired; and they do not write for knowing and over-acute…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

In the course of my research, I've read a lot of incredibly bad books - mostly by academics. I'm puzzled as to just why…

— Mark Kurlansky

Part of being a writer is knowing when what you write is really bad.

— Reif Larsen

“And no matter how much I want to encourage the man or woman trying for the first time to write seriously, I can’t lie…

— Stephen King