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• Of writing well the source and fountainhead is wise thinking.

  Horace

  Wise, Writing, Thinking

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• 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.

  Natalie Goldberg

  Block, Moving, Writing

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• 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.

  Tennessee Williams

  Writing, Goes On, World

  Tennessee Williams, Albert J. Devlin (1986). “Conversations with Tennessee Williams”, Univ Pr of Mississippi

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• 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.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Writing, Today, Easier

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Writing, People, Decline

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• 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.

  Al Franken

  Art, Writing, People

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• 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.

  Alfred the Great

  Education, Writing, Men

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

  Quintilian

  Writing, Wells

  Quintilian (1856). “Quintilian's Institutes of Oratory, Or, Education of an Orator: In Twelve Books”, p.286

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

  Tennessee Williams

  Writing, World, Pleasure

  Tennessee Williams, Albert J. Devlin (1986). “Conversations with Tennessee Williams”, Univ Pr of Mississippi

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• Sound judgment is the ground of writing well.

  Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon

  Writing, Sound, Judgment

  Wentworth Dillon (4th earl of Roscommon.) (1749). “The poetical works of ... Wentworth Dillon, earl of Roscommon”, p.229

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• 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.

  Jill Paton Walsh

  Writing, Important, Literature

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• 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.

  Donald Miller

  Art, War, Book

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• 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.

  Jillian Medoff

  Hate, Writing, Giving

  Source: bookmagnet.wordpress.com

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• 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.

  Dean Young

  Block, Believe, Writing

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

  Aaron Sorkin

  Writing, Television, Deadline

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• 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.

  William Zinsser

  Writing, Mean, Essence

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• 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.

  James Lipton

  Writing, Elation, May

  Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. February 9, 2010.

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• 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.

  Randy Newman

  Song, Cheer, Distance

  Source: www.avclub.com

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

  Edward Hirsch

  Writing, Feelings, Fluency

  Big Think interview, bigthink.com.

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

  Rosellen Brown

  Book, Writing, Long

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

  Carole Maso

  Writing, Two, Brain

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• 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.

  Dani Shapiro

  Dream, Writing, Breathing

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• 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.

  Tony Kushner

  Running, Writing, Hands

  "We Call That Failure Art" by Tony Kushner, www.newyorker.com. October 31, 2013.

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• 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.

  A. J. Liebling

  Writing, Pay, Firsts

  A. J. Liebling (2005). “Just Enough Liebling: Classic Work by the Legendary New Yorker Writer”, p.59, Macmillan

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• 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.

  A. J. Liebling

  Writing, Impossible, Eating

  A. J. Liebling (2005). “Just Enough Liebling: Classic Work by the Legendary New Yorker Writer”, p.25, Macmillan

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