Best Writing Well Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Learn to write well and you will walk on water and turn wine into opium. You will speak a thousand new tongues and talk to the gods. You will live in constant and everlasting euphoria.”

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Author:Roman Payne

“You can be a member of all of the romance writers associations, take part in all of the networking available, or win the latest romance award... but guess what? None of that makes a difference if you don't WRITE something people want to READ. The greatest editor in the world won't make your book a best seller if it isn't something people care about. So forget all of the fluff that clouds your purpose... writing!!”

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Author:Kathryn Le Veque

“Writing well is more than mechanics, but it is not less.”

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Book:Wordsmithy: Hot Tips for the Writing Life

Source: Wordsmithy: Hot Tips for the Writing Life

“Of all that is written I love only what a man has written with his blood. Write with blood, and you will experience that blood is spirit.”

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Book:Thus spake Zarathustra

Source: Thus spake Zarathustra

“Excitement is simple: excitement is a situation, a single event. It mustn't be wrapped up in thoughts, similes, metaphors. A simile is a form of reflection, but excitement is of the moment when there is no time to reflect. Action can only be expressed by a subject, a verb and an object, perhaps rhythm -- little else. Even an adjective slows the pace or tranquilizes the nerve.”

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Author:Graham Greene

“My prescription for writer's block is to face the fact that there is no such thing.... Writing well is difficult, but one can always write something. And then, with a lot of work, make it better. It's a question of having enough will and ambition, not of hoping to evade this mysterious hysteria people are always talking about.”

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Author:Thomas Mallon

“Rewriting is the essence of writing well - where the game is won or lost.”

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Author:William Zinsser

“Rewriting is the essence of writing well: it's where the game is won or lost. The idea is hard to accept. We all have emotional equity in our first draft; we can't believe that it wasn't born perfect. But the odds are close to 100 percent that it wasn't.”

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Author:William Zinsser

“I don't consider myself an artist necessarily, but craftsmen or people in the arts, their spiritualism is sort of when you're writing well or performing well or doing whatever you do well, there's an element of that that's either God-given, a talent that you're not necessarily responsible for.”

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Author:Al Franken

“Writing well is at one and the same time good thinking, good feeling, and good expression; it is having wit, soul, and taste, all together.”

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Author:Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon

“I would love to see writing taught online because at university like Yale, there are not enough teachers who are able to teach writing well, or in some cases, there are none.”

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Author:David Gelernter

“I've always had standards about writing well. There is art in this business. There is potentially great art.”

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Author:Gay Talese

“I do labor - it's part of the process. Writing is no easier today than it was in the beginning: writing well is very hard to do. Always.”

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Author:Nicholas Sparks

“Too indolent to bear the toil of writing; I mean of writing well; I say nothing about quantity. [Lat., Piger scribendi ferre laborem; Scribendi recte, nam ut multum nil moror.]”

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Author:Horace

“There is a great quote from a female writer. She said, 'If you don't break out in a sweat of fear when you write, you are not writing well enough. I tend to agree. I think my best pictures come when I push myself.”

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Author:Sally Mann

“Sometimes what I'm writing is more important to me than the rest of my life. It's more important to me that I'm writing well than anything else.”

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Author:Randy Newman

“I write every day. Even if I'm not writing well, I write through it. I can fix a bad page. I can't fix a blank one.”

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Author:Nora Roberts

“[On book promotion:] The reward for writing well appears to be not to be able to do it for a long time.”

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Author:Rosellen Brown

“There is nothing more important than writing well for the young, if literature is to have a continuance ... They will inherit the earth; and nothing that we value will endure in the world unless they can be persuaded to value it too.”

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Author:Jill Paton Walsh

“Nature's chief masterpiece is writing well.”

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Author:John Sheffield, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Normanby

“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.”

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Author:Lucy Calkins

“There is no pleasure in the world like writing well and going fast.”

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Book:Conversations with Tennessee Williams

Source: Conversations with Tennessee Williams

“By writing quickly we are not brought to write well, but by writing well we are brought to write quickly.”

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Book:Quintilian's Institutes of Oratory, Or, Education of an Orator: In Twelve Books

Source: Quintilian's Institutes of Oratory, Or, Education of an Orator: In Twelve Books

“All the youth now in England of free men, who are rich enough to be able to devote themselves to it, be set to learn as long as they are not fit for any other occupation, until they are able to read English writing well.”

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Author:Alfred the Great

“Sound judgment is the ground of writing well.”

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Book:The poetical works of ... Wentworth Dillon, earl of Roscommon

Source: The poetical works of ... Wentworth Dillon, earl of Roscommon

“I don't read a lot of inspirational books for life. But for writing, I think the two best books are The War of Art and William Zinsser's On Writing Well. I read a lot of classics.”

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Author:Donald Miller

“It's easy to write something average or even something good. But writing well is quite challenging.”

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Author:Nicholas Sparks

“I love it, I hate it, it's ecstasy when I'm writing well, it's despair when I'm not. I wouldn't wish this life on anyone, nor would I, could I, ever give it up.”

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Author:Jillian Medoff

“I don't believe in writer's block, writing well is very easy; it's writing horribly, the horrible work necessary to do to get to writing well, that is so difficult one may just not be willing to do it.”

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Author:Dean Young

“I was getting rewarded for writing well, from about the age of five or six. A teacher would say, "Look what Andrew has written," and I thought, "Maybe I could be a writer."”

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Author:Andrew Davies

“With a television series, there's a hard deadline, and so you have to write even when you're not writing well.”

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Author:Aaron Sorkin

“Be yourself and your readers will follow you anywhere. Try to commit an act of writing and they will jump overboard to get away.”

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Author:William Zinsser

“All writing is ultimately a question of solving a problem.”

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Author:William Zinsser

“Nobody told all the new e-mail writers that the essence of writing is rewriting. Just because they are writing with ease and enjoyment doesn't mean they are writing well.”

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Author:William Zinsser

“I may be writing well, I may be writing poorly, but I enjoy the act of writing and sometimes when it turns out okay, I feel an elation that is incomparable.”

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Author:James Lipton

“And when I'm writing well and when I'm inside the feeling, then I can do fairly complicated things with some fluency.”

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Author:Edward Hirsch

“More of my songs are intended to be funny than almost anyone else. Sometimes maybe it cheers me up a bit. I've got a distance from it. Sometimes what I'm writing is more important to me than the rest of my life. It's more important to me that I'm writing well than anything else.”

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Author:Randy Newman

“A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.”

“There is no way of writing well and also of writing easily.”

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Book:Barchester Towers

Source: Barchester Towers

“There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.”

“Of all those arts in which the wise excel, Nature's chief masterpiece is writing well.”

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Author:Andre Breton

“Muses are fickle, and many a writer, peering into the voice, has escaped paralysis by ascribing the creative responsibility to a talisman: a lucky charm, a brand of paper, but most often a writing instrument. Am I writing well? Thank my pen. Am I writing badly? Don't blame me blame my pen. By such displacements does the fearful imagination defend itself.”

“Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.”

“They say living well is the best revenge but sometimes writing well is even better.”

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Author:James Franco

“One of the strangest things about writing well is that it requires two different zones in the brain--rigor and recklessness--simultaneously.”

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Author:Carole Maso

“Writing well is the best revenge.”

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Author:Dorothy Parker

“Writing well means never having to say, 'I guess you had to be there.'”

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Author:Jef Mallett

“Clutter is the disease of American writing. We are a society strangling in unnecessary words, circular constructions, pompous frills, and meaningless jargon.”

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Book:On Writing Well, 30th Anniversary Edition: An Informal Guide to Writing Nonfiction

Source: On Writing Well, 30th Anniversary Edition: An Informal Guide to Writing Nonfiction

“I know well enough that very few people who are supposedly interested in writing are interested in writing well. They are interested in publishing something, and if possible in making a "killing." They are interested in being a writer not in writing. . . If this is what you are interested in, I am not going to be much use to you.”

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Book:Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose

Source: Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose

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