Quotes about writing
Write with the learned, pronounce with the vulgar.
Benjamin Franklin
All of us learn to write in the second grade. Most of us go on to greater things.
Bobby Knight
Every journalist has a novel in him, which is an excellent place for it.
Russel Lynes
There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
Oscar Wilde
The short words are best, and the short, old words are the best of all.
Sir Winston Churchill
A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts.
William Strunk Jr.
To overcome writer's block, get something - anything - down on paper. Don't wait for perfection to issue forth. Since the key to good writing is rewriting, give yourself something to edit.
James Freund
Writing is easy. All you have to do is cross out the wrong words.
Mark Twain
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