Quotes for All
The man of understanding can no more sit quiet and resigned while his country lets its literature decay, and lets good writing meet with contempt, than a good doctor could sit quiet and contented while some ignorant child was infecting itself with tuberculosis under the impression that it was merely eating jam tarts. Ezra Pound
No blur of inexactness, no cloud of vagueness, is allowable in good writing; from the first seeing to the last putting down, there must be steady lucidity and uncompromise of purpose. Eudora Welty
To me there is no such thing as creative writing. It’s either good writing, whatever the subject, or it’s not creative. Erskine Caldwell
All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel that all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you: the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse and sorrow, the people and the places … Read more
Good writing , like gold , combines lustrous lucidity with high density. What this means is good writing is packed with hints. Eric Hoffer
Good writing can be defined as having something to say and saying it well. When one has nothing to say, one should remain silent. Silence is always beautiful at such times. Edward Abbey
I never read prefaces, and it is not much good writing things just for people to skip. I wonder other authors have never thought of this. E. Nesbit
Good writing is supposed to evoke sensation in the reader – not the fact that it is raining, but the feeling of being rained upon. E. L. Doctorow
Every page was once a blank page, just as every word that appears on it now was not always there, but instead reflects the final result of countless large and small deliberations. All the elements of good writing depend on the writer’s skill in choosing one word instead of another. And what grabs and keeps … Read more
All the elements of good writing depend on the writer’s skill in choosing one word instead of another. Francine Prose