Communication skills Quote by Susan C. Young

“In this profession mistakes are all a part of it. If you write something flawlessly you've done something wrong.”

— Eric T. Benoit

“Poor writing is lazy, careless writing, an attempt to communicate without adequate preparation or care. It is writing replete with passive construction, limp verbs,…

— Mark Nichol

“short letters take a long time to write,”

— Marc Cameron

“One of the really bad things you can do to your writing is to dress up the vocabulary, looking for long words because you’re…

— Stephen King

“There are four-letter words you should never use in business. They're not fuck or shit. They're need, must, can't, easy, just, only and fast.…

— Jason Fried, David Heinemeier Hansson

“Write at a pace that doesn't surpass your creative flow. Don't be hasty; don't be sloppy. Don't forfeit impressive writing for an impressive word…

— Richelle E. Goodrich

“A poor attempt at writing is better than no attempt at all.”

— Ksenia Anske

“The worst thing you can do as a writer is waste people's time.”

— John Connolly

“Bad writing is better than no writing.”

— Dina Santorelli

“There is one surefire way to produce bad writing: submit to the slavery of a deadline.”

— Flavia Idà

“It’s imperative that writing consists of not living up to your own taste. Of leaving the world behind so you can hold fast to…

— Durga Chew-Bose

“knowing now that the job of writing was as much about removing words as adding them,”

— Paul Auster