Be kind Quote by William Zinsser

“What's crucial is whether your writing attains the standards you've set for yourself. (...) Basically a writer has a quiet, inner motivation, and doesn't…

— Haruki Murakami

“Elmore Leonard's Ten Rules of Writing 1. Never open a book with weather. 2. Avoid prologues. 3. Never use a verb other than "said"…

— Elmore Leonard

It is also true that one can write nothing readable unless one constantly struggles to efface one's own personality. Good prose is like a…

— George Orwell

Good writing is lean and confident.

— Anonymous

You write to suit some sense in yourself and trust that that will resonate with a certain wider readership.

— Anna Quindlen

For a man to write well, there are required three necessaries: to read the best authors, observe the best speakers, and much exercise of…

— Ben Jonson

read widely, not in order to copy someone else's style, but to learn to appreciate and recognize good writing and to see how the…

— P. D. James

If you want to be a writer, don't worry so much about writing. Read as much as you can. Read as many different writers…

— R. L. Stine

Most good writing is clear, vigorous, honest, alive, sensuous, appropriate, unsentimental, rhythmic, without pretension, fresh, metaphorical, evocative in sound, economical, authoritative, surprising, memorable, and…

— Ken Macrorie

My advice for aspiring writers is threefold.First, read as much as possible, both within and outside the genre you arem working in. By reading…

— Vera Nazarian

“To be a successful fiction writer you have to write well, write a lot … and let ‘em know you’ve written it! Then rinse…

— Gerard de Marigny

Any one who wishes to become a good writer should endeavour, before he allows himself to be tempted by the more showy qualities, to…

— Henry Watson Fowler