Description Quote by Rebecca McClanahan

“People approach writers, assuming we pull a perfect text out of our nose each time (well spelled). Spelling is the least of it.”

— Sara Levine

“A Writer Drenched in Words is Never Caught in a Dry Spell”

— Anonymous

“...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

“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

“Academic writers are bad writers for three reasons. First, they want to sound smart. “If the water is dark,” goes a German aphorism, “the…

— Paul J. Silvia

“Writing is a manual labor of the mind: a job, like laying pipe.”

— John Gregory Dunne

Nothing is more satisfying than to write a good sentence. It is no fun to write lumpishly, dully, in prose the reader must plod…

— Barbara Tuchman

“If you're a writer you're bound to write something fine, at least now and then, off and on.”

— Jorge Luis Borges

“If a writer starts worring about what he or she has left out or forgotten, they might not be able to write even a…

— Baby Halder

The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Writing wasn't easy and wasn't fun. It was hard and lonely, and the words seldom just flowed.

— William Zinsser

“Writing is very hard mostly because until you try to write something down, it’s easy to fool yourself into believing you understand things. Writing…

— Mark Vonnegut