Reading Quote by William Zinsser

“without reading about white superstar athletes like Derek Jeter, Jason Kidd, and journeyman quarterback”

— C.H. Dalton

Our society is intertwined with the economy that we've built, which is a fantastically complex system. I hope that my writing about it might…

— Tim Harford

Whatever I'm doing, I try to write well. I try to give the reader a nice, clean well-written surface, where the writing is transparent.…

— Shelby Steele

I like to stay away from writing about good versus evil. I think the world is more complicated.

— Jed Mercurio

When really writing I'm not a good friend. Because writing disorganizes the social self, you become atomized. It scrambles you, sometimes to the point…

— Tony Kushner

When I'm writing, it's about the page. It's not about the movie. It's not about cinema. It's about the literature of me putting my…

— Quentin Tarantino

Writing a good query letter has very little to do with writing a good novel. But if you can't write the one, it makes…

— Patrick Rothfuss

Good writing is good writing, but that doesn't mean you can't orchestrate it or tweak it.

— John Travolta

To me there is no such thing as creative writing. It's either good writing, whatever the subject, or it's not creative.

— Erskine Caldwell

There is no left and right in writing. There is only good and bad writing.

— Ernest Hemingway

Good writing is good conversation, only more so.

— Ernest Hemingway

I try to write songs just for the song itself. I don't try and think about where it's going to end up, that way…

— Jon Foreman