Because Quote by Peter Morgan

I'd always rather spec something and just write it. Because when you're pitching something that isn't even on a page yet, it allows people…

— Cord Jefferson

Often in writing programs, articulation and clarity are more important than what you actually say.

— Etgar Keret

The scope of what I have to say determines the length of what I write.

— Edward M. Lerner

Writing can be either readable or precise, but not at the same time.

— Bertrand Russell

Whatever I'm doing, I try to write well. I try to give the reader a nice, clean well-written surface, where the writing is transparent.…

— Shelby Steele

Somehow writing has always seemed to me to have an element of performance.

— Joan Didion

While you're writing, you can't concentrate nearly as well on what the speaker is saying.

— Marilyn vos Savant

Writing is very much perceived as something distinct from performance. I don't see it like that.

— Robert Lepage

What I'm constantly striving for in my prose is clarity. So that, ideally, the writing will become so transparent that the reader will forget…

— Jonathan Lethem

I've tried writing on a computer thinking it would make me more efficient, but if you're writing crummy stuff, being efficient is no help.

— Jennifer Egan

I write by hand, making many, many corrections. I would say I cross out more than I write. I have to hunt for words…

— Italo Calvino

I try to make what I have written tighter, stronger and more precise, eliminating every element that's not doing useful work. Then I go…

— William Zinsser