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Writing Well Quotes

You know you’re writing well when you’re throwing good stuff into the wastebasket Picture Quote #1

Rewriting is the essence of writing well: it’s where the game is won or lost. The idea is hard to accept. We all have emotional equity in our first draft; we can’t believe that it wasn’t born perfect. But the odds are close to 100 percent that it wasn’t Picture Quote #1

There is nothing more important than writing well for the young, if literature is to have a continuance... They will inherit the earth; and nothing that we value will endure in the world unless they can be persuaded to value it too Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite. Without this, it is impossible to accumulate, within the allotted span, enough experience of eating to have anything worth setting down Picture Quote #1

From writing rapidly it does not result that one writes well, but from writing well it results that one writes rapidly Picture Quote #1

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Writing well involves walking the path of most resistance. Sitting still, being patient, allowing the lunatic dream to take shape on the page, then the shaping, the pencil on the page, breathing, slowing down, being willing–no, more than willing, being wide open–to press the bruise until it blossoms Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

I’ve always had standards about writing well. There is art in this business. There is potentially great art Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

If I'm not writing well, I'm not happy. If I'm not spending enough time with my family, I'm not happy. If I'm not connecting to friends or if I don't work out enough. You get the point. Everything has to be balanced. Nothing should be an extreme Picture Quote #1

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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 Picture Quote #1

By writing quickly we are not brought to write well, but by writing well we are brought to write quickly Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

I think it’s a short story writer’s duty, as well as writing well about emotions and characters, to write story Picture Quote #1

I may be writing well, I may be writing poorly, but I enjoy the act of writing and sometimes when it turns out okay, I feel an elation that is incomparable Picture Quote #1

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It’s not the fear of writing that blocks people, it’s fear of not writing well; something quite different Picture Quote #1

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You know you’re writing well when you’re throwing good stuff into the wastebasket (Writing Well Quotes) Rewriting is the essence of writing well: it’s where the game is won or lost. The idea is hard to accept. We all have emotional equity in our first draft; we can’t believe that it wasn’t born perfect. But the odds are close to 100 percent that it wasn’t (Writing Well Quotes) There is nothing more important than writing well for the young, if literature is to have a continuance... They will inherit the earth; and nothing that we value will endure in the world unless they can be persuaded to value it too (Writing Well Quotes) 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 Well Quotes) The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite. Without this, it is impossible to accumulate, within the allotted span, enough experience of eating to have anything worth setting down (Writing Well Quotes) From writing rapidly it does not result that one writes well, but from writing well it results that one writes rapidly (Writing Well Quotes) Writing well involves walking the path of most resistance. Sitting still, being patient, allowing the lunatic dream to take shape on the page, then the shaping, the pencil on the page, breathing, slowing down, being willing–no, more than willing, being wide open–to press the bruise until it blossoms (Writing Well Quotes) 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 (Writing Well Quotes) I’ve always had standards about writing well. There is art in this business. There is potentially great art (Writing Well Quotes) 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 (Writing Well Quotes) 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 Well Quotes) If I'm not writing well, I'm not happy. If I'm not spending enough time with my family, I'm not happy. If I'm not connecting to friends or if I don't work out enough. You get the point. Everything has to be balanced. Nothing should be an extreme (Writing Well Quotes) 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 Well Quotes) By writing quickly we are not brought to write well, but by writing well we are brought to write quickly (Writing Well Quotes) 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 Well Quotes) 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 (Writing Well Quotes) I think it’s a short story writer’s duty, as well as writing well about emotions and characters, to write story (Writing Well Quotes) I may be writing well, I may be writing poorly, but I enjoy the act of writing and sometimes when it turns out okay, I feel an elation that is incomparable (Writing Well Quotes) Muses are fickle, and many a writer, peering into the voice, has escaped paralysis by ascribing the creative responsibility to a talisman: a lucky charm, a brand of paper, but most often a writing instrument. Am I writing well? Thank my pen. Am I writing badly? Don’t blame me blame my pen. By such displacements does the fearful imagination defend itself (Writing Well Quotes) It’s not the fear of writing that blocks people, it’s fear of not writing well; something quite different (Writing Well Quotes)

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