Audience Quote by Robert McKee

“The world is full of people who write poorly but passionately, and others who can put a sentence together but have no feeling behind…

— Kameron Hurley

That's just a part of being an artist: you can't write great stuff all the time, because if you did, then you'd be inhuman.…

— Elton John

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

— Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon

If you want to write, you write. Talent is simply not enough.

— Jane Yolen

Writing is really just a matter of writing a lot, writing consistently and having faith that you'll continue to get better and better. Sometimes,…

— Laura Kasischke

I know people who are really talented at writing, and they just don't ever make it happen because they're also good at other things.

— John Brandon

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 writing is clear. Talented writing is energetic. Good writing avoids errors. Talented writing makes things happen in the reader's mind---vividly, forcefully...

— Samuel R. Delany

You know, many writers really don't like to write. I think this the chief complaint of so many. They hate to write; they do…

— Harper Lee

Good writing comes from good talent.

— Leonardo da Vinci

You know how sometimes you meet writers that are so full of themselves? They feel really proud that they wrote something . But what…

— Sandra Cisneros

To me, writing is like singing in the most inappropriate place, singing as beautifully as you can on a bus or in a bank,…

— Hisham Matar