Writing Well Quotes

• There is no way of writing well and also of writing easily.

  Anthony Trollope

  Education, Reading, Writing

  Anthony Trollope (2016). “Barchester Towers”, p.238, Anthony Trollope

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• 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.

  Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon

  Writing, Thinking, Expression

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

  Andre Breton

  Wise, Art, Nature

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• Nature's chief masterpiece is writing well.

  John Sheffield, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Normanby

  Writing, Chiefs, Authorship

  "Essay on Poetry" by John Sheffield,

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

  Jef Mallett

  Mean, Writing, Wells

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

  William Zinsser

  Writing, Secret, Sentences

  William Zinsser (2012). “On Writing Well, 30th Anniversary Edition: An Informal Guide to Writing Nonfiction”, p.6, Harper Collins

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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

  William Zinsser

  Writing, Hard Work, People

  William Zinsser (2012). “On Writing Well, 30th Anniversary Edition: An Informal Guide to Writing Nonfiction”, p.9, Harper Collins

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

  Thomas Mann

  Writing, People, Difficult

  "Essays of Three Decades". Book by Thomas Mann, 1942.

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• Clutter is the disease of American writing.

  William Zinsser

  Writing, Jargon, Disease

  William Zinsser (2012). “On Writing Well, 30th Anniversary Edition: An Informal Guide to Writing Nonfiction”, p.5, Harper Collins

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

  William Zinsser

  Writing, Essence, Games

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

  William Zinsser

  Writing, Jargon, Disease

  William Zinsser (2012). “On Writing Well, 30th Anniversary Edition: An Informal Guide to Writing Nonfiction”, p.6, Harper Collins

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

  William Zinsser

  Being Yourself, Writing, Trying

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• Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.

  Oscar Wilde

  Book, Writing, Reading Literature

  The Picture of Dorian Gray preface (1891)

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• All writing is ultimately a question of solving a problem.

  William Zinsser

  Writing, Problem

  "On Writing Well". Book by William Zinsser (Chapter 8: Unity, p. 49), 1976.

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• 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.

  William Zinsser

  Believe, Writing, Emotional

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

  William Zinsser

  Subjects, Products, Written

  William Zinsser (2012). “On Writing Well, 30th Anniversary Edition: An Informal Guide to Writing Nonfiction”, p.5, Harper Collins

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

  Oscar Wilde

  Book, Reading, Writing

  The Picture of Dorian Gray preface (1891)

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• 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.

  Nora Roberts

  Writing, Pages, Blank

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• 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.

  David Foster Wallace

  Writing, Mean, Alive

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• 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.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Writing, People, Use

  Flannery O'Connor (1969). “Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose”, p.64, Macmillan

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• 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.

  Adam Gopnik

  Sweet, Strong, Writing

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

  Scott Berkun

  Block, Writing, People

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• Writing well is the best revenge.

  Dorothy Parker

  Revenge, Writing, Wells

  "Fictional character: Sir Hugh Carleton Greene". "Filth: The Mary Whitehouse Story", www.imdb.com. 2008.

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• 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.

  Lucy Calkins

  Writing, Eye, Able

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

  Nicholas Sparks

  Writing, Average, Challenges

  Source: www.cliffsnotes.com

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