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

  Quintilian

  Writing, Doe, Results

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• 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."

  Andrew Davies

  Teacher, Writing, Age

  Source: collider.com

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• 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.

  Thomas Mallon

  Block, Writing, Ambition

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• 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

  Writing, Important, Sometimes

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• 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.

  Sally Mann

  Writing, Thinking, Sweat

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• 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.]

  Horace

  Mean, Writing, Bears

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• 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.

  Nicole Krauss

  Writing, Thinking, Choices

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

  Gay Talese

  Art, Writing, Journalism

  "Lecture: Gay Talese". Bullpen: NYU Journalism, September 14, 2006.

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• 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.

  David Gelernter

  Teacher, Writing, Yale

  Source: bigthink.com

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• 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.

  Anne Fadiman

  Responsibility, Writing, Voice

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

  James Franco

  Revenge, Writing, Sometimes

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

  Ernest Hemingway

  Writing, Stuff, Throwing

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

  A. J. Liebling

  Food, Writing, Cooking

  A. J. Liebling (2005). “Just Enough Liebling: Classic Work by the Legendary New Yorker Writer”, p.27, Macmillan

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