Inspirational Quote by William Faulkner

You cannot write well or much (and I venture the opinion that you cannot write well unless you write much) unless you form a…

— W. Somerset Maugham

It's not hard to write poorly. But to write something good, it has to be revised.

— Joyce Carol Oates

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

— David McCullough

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

— Philip Larkin

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've got to write badly. If you write badly at least you've got something to rewrite. If you're scared to write badly, then you've…

— Tony Grisoni

Learn to write well, or not to write at all.

— John Dryden

not writing is not good but trying to write when you can't is worse.

— Charles Bukowski

I don't really write beautifully naturally, unlike some people.

— George Saunders

Those who write as they speak, even though they speak well, write badly.

— Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon

I try to write every day. Sometimes the things come out well, and sometimes they don't. When they come out well you think, Wow,…

— Richard Ayoade

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