Happiness Quote by William Zinsser

“If a writer rewrites an essay, people who read the new version are unlikely to complain that their thoughts have been broken by some…

— Paul Graham

“Literature is too full of 'acknowledgments' and squabbles about originality...”

— George Bernard Shaw

“You can fix just about any problem in your writing, but you cannot revise a blank page.”

— Gabriela Pereira

“The aspiration of all writers should be to avoid leaving fissures in their work, to make sure that everything is properly secured so readers…

— Marcos Giralt Torrente

“The best way to mess with the head of your reader is to strategize the delivery of bad news.”

— Benjamin Percy

“While analyzing some already-existing opinions on the subject, he also expressed his own view. The main thing was the tone of the article and…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

Criticism at the wrong time, even if it's legitimate criticism, can be seriously damaging and make the writer lose faith in what he's doing.…

— Donna Tartt

I not only could not stifle controversy among your readers.. I welcome it. This Administration intends to be candid about its errors; for as…

— John F. Kennedy

“The process of editing a piece of writing seems sometimes a lot like natural selection. Your efforts never really eliminate the mistakes. You just…

— John A. Ashley

“Every writer in this book has a slightly different process, but they all start with the same thing: a blank page.”

— Timothy Ferriss

“I was thinking the other day about the idea that you have a reader and a writer, and they’re different and they’re flawed and…

— George Saunders

“That's the worst aspect of being a writer: managing plausibility.”

— Chuck Palahniuk