“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.” PeopleWritingWellsEnoughFactsFacesDifficultTalkingAmbitionBlockMysteriousPrescriptionsHysteriaWriter's BlockWriting Well Author:Thomas Mallon
“Rewriting is the essence of writing well - where the game is won or lost.” WritingWellsGamesLostEssenceRewritingWriting Well 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.” WritingFirstsBelieveWellsIdeasHardGamesLostBornPerfectAcceptingEmotionalPercentEssenceOddsEquityRewritingWriting Well 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.” PeopleWritingWellsArtArtistGivenTalentElementsResponsiblePerformingCraftsmanSpiritualismWriting WellPerforming Well 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.” ThinkingWritingWellsSoulFeelingsTogetherExpressionTasteWitGood FeelingWriting WellGood ThinkingThinking Good 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.” WritingWellsEnoughAbleTeachCasesTeacherTaughtUniversityOnlineYaleWriting Well Author:David Gelernter