Quotes about writers and writing




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"We are nauseated by the sight of trivial personalities decomposing in the eternity of print."

Woolf, Virginia on writers and writing    Share


"The creations of a great writer are little more than the moods and passions of his own heart, given surnames and Christian names, and sent to walk the earth."

Yeats, William Butler on writers and writing    Share

"Clutter is the disease of American writing. We are a society strangling in unnecessary words, circular constructions, pompous frills and meaningless jargon."

Zinsser, William on writers and writing    Share

"Four basic premises of writing: clarity, brevity, simplicity, and humanity."

Zinsser, William on writers and writing
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"Hard writing makes easy reading. Easy writing makes hard reading."

Zinsser, William on writers and writing
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"Writing is thinking on paper."

Zinsser, William on writers and writing
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"Writing is a craft not an art."

Zinsser, William on writers and writing    Share

"“ ‘As things stand now, I am going to be a writer. I’m not sure that I’m going to be a good one or even a self-supporting one, but until the dark thumb of fate presses me to the dust and says ‘you are nothing,’ I will be a writer.’”"

Thompson, Hunter S. on writers and writing    Share

"If you dont write you wrong."

Dye, James on writers and writing    Share

"Write even badly One day you will right well."

Tadj Abelkader on writers and writing    Share

"A writer is nothing without a reader; a reader is nothing without a writer."

Liccione, Anthony on writers and writing    Share

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