Excellence Quote by Susan Orlean

There's a marvelous sense of mastery that comes with writing a sentence that sounds exactly as you want it to. It's like trying to…

— Susan Orlean

“Completing the circle is both philosophical and tactical - there is a growing sense of mastery that comes with practice, diligence, and experience.”

— Eric Mann

Mastery comes via a monomaniacal focus on simplicity versus an addiction to complexity.

— Robin Sharma

A man is a writer if all his words are strung in definite sentence sounds.

— Marianne Moore

The aphorism offers a momentary sense of mastery over some confusion or unhappiness.

— Mason Cooley

Flying alone! Nothing gives such a sense of mastery over time over mechanism, mastery indeed over space, time, and life itself, as this.

— Cecil Day-Lewis

I can't stand a sentence until it sounds right.

— John McPhee

After mastery comes artistry and not before.

— Gregory Bateson

Swimming has its educational value - mental, moral, and physical - in giving you a sense of mastery over an element, and of power…

— Robert Baden-Powell

The quality of that 'who I am', is what I hope comes out in the writing.

— Quentin S. Crisp

Thoughts are created in the act of writing. [It is a myth that] you must have something to say in order to write. Reality:…

— Frank Smith

All my children inspire me in life, and that always comes out in the writing.

— Paul Weller