You know you're writing well when you're throwing good stuff into the wastebasket.
- Ernest Hemingway
Of all those arts in which the wise excel, Nature's chief masterpiece is writing well.
- Andre Breton
I think it's a short story writer's duty, as well as writing well about emotions and characters, to write story.
- Eric Brown
...[T]he only means I have to stop ignorant snobs from behaving towards genre fiction with snobbish ignorance is to not reinforce their ignorance and snobbery by lying and saying that when I write SF it isn't SF, but to tell them more or less patiently for forty or fifty years that they are wrong to exclude SF and fantasy from literature, and proving my arguments by writing well.
- Ursula K Le Guin
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
They say living well is the best revenge but sometimes writing well is even better.
- James Franco
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
Writing well means never having to say, I guess you had to be there.
- Jef Mallett
One of the strangest things about writing well is that it requires two different zones in the brain--rigor and recklessness--simultaneously.
- Carole Maso
The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite.
- Robert M Parker Jr
Who's to say what a 'literary life' is? As long as you are writing often, and writing well, you don't need to be hanging-out in libraries all the time.
Nightclubs are great literary research centers. So is Ibiza!
- Roman Payne
Writing isn't difficult. Writing well is difficult. What is most difficult is being with the interior experience that manifests as resistance to writing.
- H Raven Rose
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 willingno, more than willing, being wide opento press the bruise until it blossoms.
- Dani Shapiro
There is no way of writing well and also of writing easily.
- Anthony Trollope
Writers say two things that strike me as nonsense. One is that you must follow an absolute schedule everyday. If you're not writing well, why continue it? I just don't think this grinding away is useful.
- Edmund White
- Ernest Hemingway
Of all those arts in which the wise excel, Nature's chief masterpiece is writing well.
- Andre Breton
I think it's a short story writer's duty, as well as writing well about emotions and characters, to write story.
- Eric Brown
...[T]he only means I have to stop ignorant snobs from behaving towards genre fiction with snobbish ignorance is to not reinforce their ignorance and snobbery by lying and saying that when I write SF it isn't SF, but to tell them more or less patiently for forty or fifty years that they are wrong to exclude SF and fantasy from literature, and proving my arguments by writing well.
- Ursula K Le Guin
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
They say living well is the best revenge but sometimes writing well is even better.
- James Franco
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
Writing well means never having to say, I guess you had to be there.
- Jef Mallett
One of the strangest things about writing well is that it requires two different zones in the brain--rigor and recklessness--simultaneously.
- Carole Maso
The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite.
- Robert M Parker Jr
Who's to say what a 'literary life' is? As long as you are writing often, and writing well, you don't need to be hanging-out in libraries all the time.
Nightclubs are great literary research centers. So is Ibiza!
- Roman Payne
Writing isn't difficult. Writing well is difficult. What is most difficult is being with the interior experience that manifests as resistance to writing.
- H Raven Rose
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 willingno, more than willing, being wide opento press the bruise until it blossoms.
- Dani Shapiro
There is no way of writing well and also of writing easily.
- Anthony Trollope
Writers say two things that strike me as nonsense. One is that you must follow an absolute schedule everyday. If you're not writing well, why continue it? I just don't think this grinding away is useful.
- Edmund White
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