Habits Quote by W. Somerset Maugham

You have to write badly in order to write well.

— William Faulkner

You cannot write unless you write much.

— W. Somerset Maugham

Writing well has everything to do with being able to read one's own work with an eye toward the unmet possibilities that are there.

— Lucy Calkins

“You can only write regularly if you're willing to write badly. You can't write regularly and well. One should accept bad writing as a…

— Jennifer Egan

If you cannot write well, you cannot think well; if you cannot think well, others will do your thinking for you.

— Oscar Wilde

You can't teach people to write well. Writing well is something God lets you do or declines to let you do.

— Kurt Vonnegut

I don’t think I write well—just better than anyone else,

— Philip Larkin

Because you can't write habitually and well all the time, you have to be willing to write badly. That's how you get the regularity…

— Jennifer Egan

If you don't allow yourself the possibility of writing something very, very bad, it would be hard to write something very good.

— Steven Galloway

Writing is thinking. To write well is to think clearly. That's why it's so hard.

— David McCullough

I may be writing well, I may be writing poorly, but I enjoy the act of writing and sometimes when it turns out okay,…

— James Lipton

Writing is one of the few activities where quantity will inevitably make quality. The more you write, the better you're going to get at…

— Harlan Coben