Acquire Quote by Steven Pinker

“Good writers are avid readers. They have absorbed a vast inventory of words, idioms, constructions, tropes, and rhetorical tricks,”

— Steven Pinker

Good writing is essentially rewriting.

— Roald Dahl

“As social concerns override literary ones, writers seem fated to eschew virtuosity and experimentation in favor of a bland but immediately accessible style. Writing…

— Nicholas Carr

Writers like to write, and writing in different forms - short, long, bite-sized, done on the fly, done with painstaking attention - all interest…

— Susan Orlean

Writing is a difficult trade which must be learned slowly by reading great authors; by trying at the outset to imitate them; by daring…

— Andre Maurois

Prose is all about embellishing and describing.

— Mike Birbiglia

Writers are a fascinating breed, because there are so many kinds of them, they are made by so many circumstances, conditions, and mysteries, and…

— William Saroyan

A lot of writers write for an audience that's going to understand them.

— Torrey Peters

Writers are used to being re-created, and need it.

— Anonymous

Writing is revision. All prose responds to work.

— Tracy Kidder

If I have learned how to write fiction it's by working with great writers and getting them to explain their craft to me so…

— Elliott Colla

Writers learn their craft, above all, from the work of other writers. From reading.

— Marie Arana