Accurate Quote by Terry Pratchett

The point is that descriptive writing is very rarely entirely accurate and during the reign of Olaf Quimby II as Patrician of Ankh-Morpork some…

— Terry Pratchett

Writing shouldn't come between the reader and what's being described. It should be as transparent as possible.

— Diana Athill

There are really so many subtleties of meaning and observation that very often are not expressed by writers.

— Joachim Frank

“Writing style can be descriptive without being wordy - and wordy without being descriptive”

— Rayne Hall

“Because—and don’t let anybody tell you different—novel writing is mostly triage (this now, that later) and obstinacy.”

— Richard Russo

“As we shall see, the prerequisites for those developments consisted of several features of human society that determined whether a society would find writing…

— Jared Diamond

It is not possible to write clearly enough to avoid being misrepresented by people who are sufficiently determined to do so.

— Karl Popper

I have known writers who paid no damned attention whatever to the rules of grammar and rhetoric and somehow made the language behave for…

— Red Smith

“The purpose of writing is to inflate weak ideas, obscure poor reasoning and inhibit clarity.”

— Bill Watterson

The more stringent the rules and the more limiting they are, the more the poet and writer is forced to resort to special techniques…

— Simin Behbahani

Few people realize how badly they write. Nobody has shown them how much excess or murkiness has crept into their style.

— William Zinsser

Writing is in fact an entirely outworn, decayed and corrupt convention whose chief & most conspicuous character is its monumental witness to the conservatism,…

— Eric Gill