We like that a sentence should read as if its author had he held a plough instead of a pen could have drawn a furrow deep and straight to the end.
Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words a paragraph no unnecessary sentences for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no...
He is limp and damp and milder than the breath of a cow.
Every great and original writer in proportion as he is great and original must himself create the taste by which he is to be relished.
The writer must write what he has to say not speak it.
Take care of the sense and the sounds will take of care themselves.
They wouldn't have picked you to tell their story if you weren't the one.
A true writer does not seek wealth or fame does seek to find himself in each of his readers souls.
In that moment, Dan was reminded why he wanted to write in the first place. It was the same reason anybody does anything -- to impress women.(Jeremy Goodwin, Sports Night)
Write a page a day and you'll have a complete novel in year.
One of the things everybody seems to want to ask writers is, "Where do you get your ideas?" When people ask me this, my usual response is, "Ideas are the easy part. The hard part is writing them down.
I write because I want to give strength to myself
Seeing yourself in print is such an amazing concept: you can get so much attention without having to actually show up somewhere. While others who have something to say or who want to be effectual, lik...
I did what most writers do at their beginnings: emulated my elders, imitated my peers, thus turning away from any possibility of discovering truths beneath my skin and behind my eye.
Your first book is the only one that matters. Perhaps a writer should write only that one. That is the one moment when you make the big leap; the opportunity to express yourself is offered that once,...
Writers should be read, but neither seen nor heard.
I suppose half the time Shakespeare just shoved down anything that came into his head.
A writer should write what he has to say and not speak it.
Well, they each seem to do one thing well enough, but fail to realize that literature depends on doing several things well at the same time.
To return to antiquity [in literature]: that has been done. To return to the Middle Ages: that too has been done. Remains the present day. But the ground is shaky: so where can you set the foundations...