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“Writing is hard work. A clear sentence is no accident. Very few sentences come out right the first time, or even the third time. Remember this in moments of despair. If you find that writing is hard, it's because it is hard. It's one of the hardest things that people do”

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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

“The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite.”

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Book:Just Enough Liebling: Classic Work by the Legendary New Yorker Writer

Source: Just Enough Liebling: Classic Work by the Legendary New Yorker Writer

“Ultimately the product that any writer has to sell is not the subject being written about, but who he or she is.”

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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

“Clutter is the disease of American writing.”

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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

“Writing well involves walking the path of most resistance. Sitting still, being patient, allowing the lunatic dream to take shape on the page, then the shaping, the pencil on the page, breathing, slowing down, being willing–no, more than willing, being wide open–to press the bruise until it blossoms.”

Writing Wells Stills Dream Path Willing Walking Shapes Pages Sitting Presses Patient Wide Resistance Breathing Allowing Pencils Slow Down Lunatic Bruises Slowing Writing Well Sitting Still

Author:Dani Shapiro

“Writing well isn't just a question of winsome expression, but of having found something big and true to say and having found the right words to say it in, of having seen something large and having found the right words to say it small, small enough to enter an individual mind so that the strong ideas of what the words are saying sound like sweet reason.”

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Author:Adam Gopnik

“You know you’re writing well when you're throwing good stuff into the wastebasket.”

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Author:Ernest Hemingway

“There is no pleasure in the world like writing well and going fast. It's like nothing else. It's like a love affair, it goes on and on, and doesn't end in marriage. It's all courtship.”

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Book:Conversations with Tennessee Williams

Source: Conversations with Tennessee Williams

“It’s not the fear of writing that blocks people, it’s fear of not writing well; something quite different.”

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Author:Scott Berkun

“In the broadest possible sense, writing well means to communicate clearly and interestingly and in a way that feels alive to the reader. Where there’s some kind of relationship between the writer and the reader - even though it’s mediated by a kind of text - there’s an electricity about it.”

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Author:David Foster Wallace

“I could give you absolutely sterling advice on how to avoid writing, how when you run out of things to do other than going to your desk and writing, when every closet is reorganized and you've called your oldest living relative twice in one day to see what she's up to and there isn't an unanswered e-mail left on your computer or you simply can't bear to answer another one and there is no dignity, not a drop left, in any further evasion of the task at hand, namely writing, well, you can always ask your dentist for a root canal or have an accident in the bathtub instead.”

“The secret of good writing is to strip every sentence to its cleanest components.”

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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

“If the first requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite, the second is to put in your apprenticeship as a feeder when you have enough money to pay the check but not enough to produce indifference of the total.”

Ifs Writing Firsts Wells Enough Pay Produce Checks Indifference Appetite Apprenticeship Writing Well

Book:Just Enough Liebling: Classic Work by the Legendary New Yorker Writer

Source: Just Enough Liebling: Classic Work by the Legendary New Yorker Writer

“The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite. Without this, it is impossible to accumulate, within the allotted span, enough experience of eating to have anything worth setting down.”

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Book:Just Enough Liebling: Classic Work by the Legendary New Yorker Writer

Source: Just Enough Liebling: Classic Work by the Legendary New Yorker Writer

“From writing rapidly it does not result that one writes well, but from writing well it results that one writes rapidly.”

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Author:Quintilian

“You can't teach people to write well. Writing well is something God lets you do or declines to let you do.”

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Author:Kurt Vonnegut

“There's no such thing as a writer's block. If you're having trouble writing, well, pick up the pen and write. No matter what, keep that hand moving. Writing is really a physical activity.”

Ifs Writing Wells Matter Hands Moving Trouble Activity Picks No Matter What Block Pens Writer's Block Physical Activity Writing Well

Author:Natalie Goldberg

“Of writing well the source and fountainhead is wise thinking.”

Thinking Writing Wells Wise Source Fountainhead Writing Well

Author:Horace

“I used to think that if I had a choice between writing well and living well, I would choose the former. But now I think that's sheer lunacy. Writing weighs so much less, in the great cosmic equation, than living.”

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Author:Nicole Krauss

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