Writing Effort Quotes

Writing Effort Quote of the day

By using stale metaphors, similes and idioms, you save much mental effort, at the cost of leaving your meaning vague, not only for your reader but for yourself.

A good style should show no signs of effort. What is written should seem a happy accident.

Almost all good writing begins with terrible first efforts. You need to start somewhere.

The most extraordinary thing about writing is that when you've struck the right vein, tiredness goes. It must be an effort, thinking wrong.

I tell beginning readers to read a lot and write a lot. If you want to write a book, find a subject that's really worth the time and effort you'll put in.

A Train was born without any effort - if was like writing a letter to a friend.

I feel like if people are going to go to the effort to get a stamp and, you know, put it on an envelope that, you know, it's a big effort these days. So I often write back.

Why it should be such an effort to write to the people one loves I can't imagine. It's none at all to write to those who don't really count.

Writing makes me hard, like a fisherman, and brown from the heat. Tossing out and reeling in is a job for visionaries and those with calloused hands.