490 Quotations with Writing.
- 101. William Zinsser: Clutter is the disease of American writing. We are a society strangling in unnec ...
- 102. Victor Hugo: Despots play their part in the works of thinkers. Fettered words are terrible wo ...
- 103. Richard Brinsley Sheridan: Easy writings curse is hard reading.
- 104. Socrates: Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings so that you shall ...
- 105. Joseph Heller: Every writer I know has trouble writing.
- 106. Joseph Brodsky: Every writing career starts as a personal quest for sainthood, for self-betterme ...
- 107. Claud Cockburn: Evidently there are plenty of people in journalism who have neither got what the ...
- 108. Mary Jean Irion: Faith is not a series of gilt -- edged propositions that you sit down to figure ...
- 109. Gloria Steinem: For me, writing is the only thing that passes the three tests of metier: (1) whe ...
- 110. William Zinsser: Four basic premises of writing: clarity, brevity, simplicity, and humanity.
- 111. Mordecai Richler: Fundamentally, all writing is about the same thing; it's about dying, about the ...
- 112. Hunter S. Thompson: Gonzo journalism is a style of "reporting" based on William Faulkner's idea that ...
- 113. Cole Porter: Good authors, too, who once knew better words now only use four-letter words wri ...
- 114. Raymond Chandler: Good critical writing is measured by the perception and evaluation of the subjec ...
- 115. Horace: Good sense is both the first principle and the parent source of good writing.
- 116. Harold Pinter: Good writing excites me, and makes life worth living.
- 117. Bill Wheeler: Good writing is clear thinking made visible.
- 118. W. Somerset Maugham: Habits in writing as in life are only useful if they are broken as soon as they ...
- 119. William Zinsser: Hard writing makes easy reading. Easy writing makes hard reading.
- 120. Ernest Hemingway: Having books published is very destructive to writing. It is even worse than mak ...
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