On Writing Well Quotes

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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.

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

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

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

Writing well is the best revenge.

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.]

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

Nature's chief masterpiece is writing well.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

All writing is ultimately a question of solving a problem.

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

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."

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.

Sound judgment is the ground of writing well.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

Of writing well the source and fountainhead is wise thinking.

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

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

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.

Writing is such a lonely work that I try to keep myself cheered up.

Good writing is good writing, whatever form it takes and whatever we call it.

...being "rather unique" is no more possible than being rather pregnant.

But on the question of who you're writing for, don't be eager to please.

I'm often dismayed by the sludge I see appearing on my screen if I approach writing as a task--the day's work--and not with some enjoyment.

The writer, his eye on the finish line, never gave enough thought to how to run the race.