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  • 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.

    Writing   Goes On   World  
    Tennessee Williams, Albert J. Devlin (1986). “Conversations with Tennessee Williams”, Univ Pr of Mississippi
  • Of writing well the source and fountainhead is wise thinking.

    Wise   Writing   Thinking  
  • My prescription for writer's block is to face the fact that there is no such thing.... Writing well is difficult, but one can always write something. And then, with a lot of work, make it better. It's a question of having enough will and ambition, not of hoping to evade this mysterious hysteria people are always talking about.

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

    "Lecture: Gay Talese". Bullpen: NYU Journalism, September 14, 2006.
  • 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.

  • There is a great quote from a female writer. She said, 'If you don't break out in a sweat of fear when you write, you are not writing well enough. I tend to agree. I think my best pictures come when I push myself.

  • 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.

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

    William Zinsser (2012). “On Writing Well, 30th Anniversary Edition: An Informal Guide to Writing Nonfiction”, p.5, Harper Collins
  • Writing well is the best revenge.

    Revenge   Writing   Wells  
    "Fictional character: Sir Hugh Carleton Greene". "Filth: The Mary Whitehouse Story", www.imdb.com. 2008.
  • There is no pleasure in the world like writing well and going fast.

    Tennessee Williams, Albert J. Devlin (1986). “Conversations with Tennessee Williams”, Univ Pr of Mississippi
  • 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.]

    Mean   Writing   Bears  
  • More of my songs are intended to be funny than almost anyone else. Sometimes maybe it cheers me up a bit. I've got a distance from it. 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.

    Song   Cheer   Distance  
    Source: www.avclub.com
  • I don't consider myself an artist necessarily, but craftsmen or people in the arts, their spiritualism is sort of when you're writing well or performing well or doing whatever you do well, there's an element of that that's either God-given, a talent that you're not necessarily responsible for.

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

    Mean   Writing   Wells  
  • 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.

    Sweet   Strong   Writing  
  • All the youth now in England of free men, who are rich enough to be able to devote themselves to it, be set to learn as long as they are not fit for any other occupation, until they are able to read English writing well.

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

    Writing   Two   Brain  
  • 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.

    Hate   Writing   Giving  
    Source: bookmagnet.wordpress.com
  • You can't teach people to write well. Writing well is something God lets you do or declines to let you do.

  • I could give you absolutely sterling advice on how to avoid writing, how when you run out of things to do other than going to your desk and writing, when every closet is reorganized and you've called your oldest living relative twice in one day to see what she's up to and there isn't an unanswered e-mail left on your computer or you simply can't bear to answer another one and there is no dignity, not a drop left, in any further evasion of the task at hand, namely writing, well, you can always ask your dentist for a root canal or have an accident in the bathtub instead.

    Running   Writing   Hands  
    "We Call That Failure Art" by Tony Kushner, www.newyorker.com. October 31, 2013.
  • Clutter is the disease of American writing. We are a society strangling in unnecessary words, circular constructions, pompous frills, and meaningless jargon.

    William Zinsser (2012). “On Writing Well, 30th Anniversary Edition: An Informal Guide to Writing Nonfiction”, p.6, Harper Collins
  • 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."

    Teacher   Writing   Age  
    Source: collider.com
  • From writing rapidly it does not result that one writes well, but from writing well it results that one writes rapidly.

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

    Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
  • If the first requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite, the second is to put in your apprenticeship as a feeder when you have enough money to pay the check but not enough to produce indifference of the total.

    Writing   Pay   Firsts  
    A. J. Liebling (2005). “Just Enough Liebling: Classic Work by the Legendary New Yorker Writer”, p.59, Macmillan
  • I used to think that if I had a choice between writing well and living well, I would choose the former. But now I think that's sheer lunacy. Writing weighs so much less, in the great cosmic equation, than living.

  • A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.

    "Essays of Three Decades". Book by Thomas Mann, 1942.
  • 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.

    Writing   Pages   Blank  
  • Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.

    The Picture of Dorian Gray preface (1891)
  • Of all those arts in which the wise excel, Nature's chief masterpiece is writing well.

    Wise   Art   Nature  
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