On the 'Star,' you were forced to learn to write a simple declarative sentence. This is useful to anyone. Newspaper work will not harm a young writer and could help him if he gets out of it in time.Ernest Hemingway
It is impossible to discourage the real writers - they don't give a damn what you say, they're going to write.Sylvia Plath
If you can think, and speak, and write, you are absolutely deadly. Writing is thinking formalized. You gain the ability to think by first learning to write very, very carefully. Then, when you can write effectively, you can do anything you want, and no one will stop you.Jordan B. Peterson
Read, read, read. Read everything—trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You’ll absorb it. Then write. If it’s good, you’ll find out. If it’s not, throw it out of the window.William Faulkner
If people cannot write well, they cannot think well, and if they cannot think well, others will do their thinking for them.George Orwell
All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.Ernest Hemingway
1. When you write something intended to be read by an important person, go through it and cut every unnecessary word. 2. The reader of anything you publish is an important person.Paul Graham
The last time somebody said, 'I find I can write much better with a word processor.', I replied, 'They used to say the same thing about drugs.'Roy Blount Jr.
Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them.Flannery O'Connor
I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better.A. J. Liebling
Writing is like prostitution. First you do it for love, and then for a few close friends, and then for money.Moliere
I agree with Balzac and 19th-century writers, black and white, who say, 'I write for money.' Yes, I think everybody should be paid handsomely; I insist on it, and I pay people who work for me, or with me, handsomely.Maya Angelou
The writer must earn money in order to be able to live and to write, but he must by no means live and write for the purpose of making money.Karl Marx
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.A. J. Liebling
The single greatest line I ever wrote as an analyst was after Lomas said they were hedged: 'The Lomas Financial Corporation is a perfectly hedged financial institution: it loses money in every conceivable interest rate environment.' I enjoyed writing that sentence more than any sentence I ever wrote.Steve Eisman
Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money.Jules Renard
I think writing really helps you heal yourself. I think if you write long enough, you will be a healthy person. That is, if you write what you need to write, as opposed to what will make money, or what will make fame.Alice Walker
The turning point was when I hit my 30th birthday. I thought, if really want to write, it's time to start. I picked up the book How to Write a Novel in 90 Days. The author said to just write three pages a day, and I figured, I can do this. I never got past Page 3 of that book.James Rollins
When you write down your ideas you automatically focus your full attention on them. Few if any of us can write one thought and think another at the same time. Thus a pencil and paper make excellent concentration tools.Michael LeBoeuf
I rewrote the ending to 'Farewell to Arms,' the last page of it, thirty-nine times before I was satisfied.Ernest Hemingway
I learned never to empty the well of my writing, but always to stop when there was still something there in the deep part of the well, and let it refill at night from the springs that fed it.Ernest Hemingway
For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.Ernest Hemingway
You can write any time people will leave you alone and not interrupt you. Or, rather, you can if you will be ruthless enough about it. But the best writing is certainly when you are in love.Ernest Hemingway
My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way.Ernest Hemingway
For a true writer, each book should be a new beginning where he tries again for something that is beyond attainment. He should always try for something that has never been done or that others have tried and failed. Then sometimes, with great luck, he will succeed.Ernest Hemingway
Writing is good, thinking is better. Cleverness is good, patience is better.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Examine every word you put on paper. You'll find a surprising number that don't serve any purpose.William Zinsser
You can't replace reading with other sources of information like videos, because you need to read in order to write well, and you need to write in order to think well.Paul Graham
Writing is the process by which we discover we don’t really know what we are talking about.Shane Parrish