Passive voice Quote by Stephen King

“Messrs. Strunk and White don’t speculate as to why so many writers are attracted to passive verbs, but I’m willing to; I think timid…

— Stephen King

“Even if, at the moment, you can't sit down and do the gruntwork of stringing verbs and nouns together, you are writing. It is…

— Luis Alberto Urrea

Writing is not a matter of choice. Writers have to write. It is somehow in their temperament, in the blood, in tradition.

— N. Scott Momaday

I think writers, by nature, are more observers instead of participators.

— Ian Hunter

“You can’t write novels about people who are timid, risk-averse and passive. Or you can, but they’re called literary novels.”

— Ken Follett

“The first sign that you've evolved as a writer is when MS WORD fails to make you feel guilty by putting a green line…

— Gaurav Sharma

“Writing is the self escaping into the open." E.B. White”

— Solveig Eggerz

“Strunk was born in 1869, and today’s writers cannot base their craft exclusively on the advice of a man who developed his sense of…

— Steven Pinker

It infuriates me that the work of white American writers can be universal and lay claim to classic texts, while black and female authors…

— Jesmyn Ward

“African-American writers with an independent vision are often consigned to obscurity. The white critics can only tolerate one black writer at a time, usually…

— Ishmael Reed

Writers are not mere copyists of language; they are polishers, embellishers, perfecters. They spend hours getting the timing right so that what they write…

— Louis Menand

Writers have opinions - that, in part, is why they write. Therefore they have strong likes and dislikes.

— Frank Delaney