Any word you have to hunt for in a thesaurus is the wrong word. There are no exceptions to this rule.
Stephen KingTags: words writing on-writing
You can fix anything but a blank page.
Nora RobertsTags: writing on-writing storytelling
A scrupulous writer, in every sentence that he writes, will ask himself at least four questions, thus: 1. What am I trying to say? 2. What words will express it? 3. What image or idiom will make it clearer? 4. Is this image fresh enough to have an effect?
George OrwellTags: writing on-writing
Those who write clearly have readers, those who write obscurely have commentators.
Abraham LincolnTags: on-writing
And there was that poor sucker Flaubert rolling around on his floor for three days looking for the right word.
Dorothy ParkerTags: humor writing on-writing flaubert
There's an epigram tacked to my office bulletin board, pinched from a magazine -- "Wanting to meet an author because you like his work is like wanting to meet a duck because you like pâté.
Margaret AtwoodTags: writers on-writing similes authors disappointment epigrams fandom
Almost all good writing begins with terrible first efforts. You need to start somewhere.
Anne LamottTags: on-writing
Inspiration is wonderful when it happens, but the writer must develop an approach for the rest of the time... The wait is simply too long.
Leonard BernsteinTags: on-writing literature creativity
The most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in, shockproof, shit detector.
Ernest HemingwayTags: on-writing
A good book isn't written, it's rewritten.
Phyllis A. WhitneyTags: writing on-writing on-fiction fiction
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