Books Quote by S.J. Watson Download Open image “Work. Write. Read. Keep putting words on the page, because that's the only way you'll get better.” — S.J. Watson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Get better Pages Way Writing
The way you get better is putting words on the page and getting them behind you. — Ridley Pearson Copy Share Image
The important thing is to write when your brain is at its best. Work edits or do outside reading with the rest of the… — Douglas Brunt Copy Share Image
Just write, get better, keep writing, keep getting better. It's the only thing you can control. — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
“Write poorly. Suck. Write Awful. Terribly. Frightfully. Don’t care. Turn off the inner editor. Let yourself write. Let it flow. Let yourself fail. Do… — Colleen Hoover Copy Share Image
Write 1000 words a day. That's only about four pages, but force yourself to do it. Put your finger down your throat and throw… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Don't tear up the page and start over again when you write a bad line-try to write your way out of it. Make mistakes… — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
Keep writing. Try to do a little bit every day, even if the result looks like crap. Getting from page four to page five… — Alan Dean Foster Copy Share Image
Write a page every single day, even if what you put on the page that day is no good - it's the only way… — Emma Forrest Copy Share Image
Keep writing. Keep doing it and doing it. Even in the moments when it's so hurtful to think about writing. — Heather Armstrong Copy Share Image
One thing that helps is to give myself permission to write badly. I tell myself that I'm going to do my five or 10… — Lawrence Block Copy Share Image
The most important advice I can offer is that writing is a craft that you can learn by practicing. If you keep writing, you… — Lauren Tarshis Copy Share Image
Do you trust me? The question is usually asked before an admission that such trust is misplaced. — S.J. Watson Copy Share Image
“No treasure house of recollection, no wealth of experience, no accumulated wisdom to pass on. What are we, if not an accumulation of our… — S.J. Watson Copy Share Image
“She looks so young, so hungry, her eyes full of possibility, of what is in store for her.” — S.J. Watson Copy Share Image
It's so difficult, isn't it? To see what's going on when you're in the absolute middle of something? It's only with hindsight we can… — S.J. Watson Copy Share Image
"Is it possible to both want and not want something at the same time? For desire to ride with fear? — S.J. Watson Copy Share Image
“He forgave you though,' said Claire. 'He never held it against you, ever. All he cared about was that you lived, and that you… — S.J. Watson Copy Share Image
“Progress? You call this progress?” I was almost shouting now, anger spilled out of me as if I could no longer contain it. “If… — S.J. Watson 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