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• Of writing well the source and fountainhead is wise thinking.

  Horace

  Wise, Writing, Thinking

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• It's easy to write something average or even something good. But writing well is quite challenging.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Writing, Average, Challenges

  Source: www.cliffsnotes.com

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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.

  Tennessee Williams

  Writing, Goes On, World

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

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• I do labor - it's part of the process. Writing is no easier today than it was in the beginning: writing well is very hard to do. Always.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Writing, Today, Easier

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• You can't teach people to write well. Writing well is something God lets you do or declines to let you do.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Writing, People, Decline

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• 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.

  Al Franken

  Art, Writing, People

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• 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.

  Sally Mann

  Writing, Thinking, Sweat

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• 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.

  Randy Newman

  Writing, Important, Sometimes

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Sound judgment is the ground of writing well.

  Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon

  Writing, Sound, Judgment

  Wentworth Dillon (4th earl of Roscommon.) (1749). “The poetical works of ... Wentworth Dillon, earl of Roscommon”, p.229

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• 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.

  Alfred the Great

  Education, Writing, Men

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• By writing quickly we are not brought to write well, but by writing well we are brought to write quickly.

  Quintilian

  Writing, Wells

  Quintilian (1856). “Quintilian's Institutes of Oratory, Or, Education of an Orator: In Twelve Books”, p.286

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• [On book promotion:] The reward for writing well appears to be not to be able to do it for a long time.

  Rosellen Brown

  Book, Writing, Long

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• 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.

  Jill Paton Walsh

  Writing, Important, Literature

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• There is no pleasure in the world like writing well and going fast.

  Tennessee Williams

  Writing, World, Pleasure

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

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• 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.]

  Horace

  Mean, Writing, Bears

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

  Gay Talese

  Art, Writing, Journalism

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

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• 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.

  Randy Newman

  Song, Cheer, Distance

  Source: www.avclub.com

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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.

  Dani Shapiro

  Dream, Writing, Breathing

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• 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.

  Tony Kushner

  Running, Writing, Hands

  "We Call That Failure Art" by Tony Kushner, www.newyorker.com. October 31, 2013.

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• 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

  Writing, Pay, Firsts

  A. J. Liebling (2005). “Just Enough Liebling: Classic Work by the Legendary New Yorker Writer”, p.59, Macmillan

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• 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.

  A. J. Liebling

  Writing, Impossible, Eating

  A. J. Liebling (2005). “Just Enough Liebling: Classic Work by the Legendary New Yorker Writer”, p.25, Macmillan

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• From writing rapidly it does not result that one writes well, but from writing well it results that one writes rapidly.

  Quintilian

  Writing, Doe, Results

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• 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.

  Nicole Krauss

  Writing, Thinking, Choices

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• 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.

  Thomas Mallon

  Block, Writing, Ambition

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• I would love to see writing taught online because at university like Yale, there are not enough teachers who are able to teach writing well, or in some cases, there are none.

  David Gelernter

  Teacher, Writing, Yale

  Source: bigthink.com

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