Simple Writing Quotes
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Simple Writing Quotes & Sayings
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The way to write American music is simple. All you have to do is be an American and then write any kind of music you wish.
— Virgil Thomson
Dare to ask, "Where is my novel too simple?"
— Scott Westerfeld
The secret is writing down one simple line after another.
— Charles Bukowski
We expect the states to show us whether or not we're achieving simple objectives-like literacy, literacy in math, the ability to read and write.
— George W. Bush
If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.
— Stephen King
For the writer under Actually Existing Socialism describing sex is a simple matter: he simply does not do it (the describing, I mean, not the sex).
— Philip Sington
It took years of keeping journals to trust a simple fact: like life in transit, the writing inside is often fragmented, messy.
— Alexandra Johnson
Writing a simple melody can take weeks to get it right where I want it, but I do quite enjoy it.
— Trevor Rabin
A key and a strangler - this is all a simple tale requires.
— Steve Aylett
You can't be a writer if you don't write, it's just that simple.
— Nicholas Sparks
Good writing works from a simple premise: your experience is not yours alone, but in some sense a metaphor for everyone's.
— Dorianne Laux
The germ of a story is a new and simple element introduced into an existing situation or mood.
— Malcolm Cowley
I do not over-intellectualize the production process. I try to keep it simple: Tell the damned story.
— Tom Clancy
My secret is simple. I have a very short attention span, and writing lots of things fast appeases that very attention span.
— Shiloh Walker
People keep asking me ... How to instantly become a better writer? It's simple: Use "power words" and see for yourself.
— Ziad K. Abdelnour
The task of the artist at any time is uncompromisingly simple - to discover what has not yet been done, and to do it.
— Craig Raine
A child can identify with adult characters- but only if they are sympathetically drawn and simple enough.
— Edmund Wallace Hildick
I attribute my good fortune to the simple fact that I have always tried to write straight from my own heart to the hearts of others.
— Marie Corelli
Sure, it's simple writing for kids ... just as simple as bringing them up.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
By small and simple sentences, great books come to pass.
— Richelle E. Goodrich
To simplify complications is the first essential of success.
— George Earle Buckle
If there is any difficulty in what I write, it is because of the material I use. The thought is always simple.
— James Joyce
Observing people. A spark of idea for a story sometimes comes from the simple act of observation.
— Ika Natassa
It's quite simple. I just don't feel right without a pen in my hand denting a hole through my notepad.
— Veronika Carnaby
The simple act of writing down a goal and making a written plan for its accomplishment moves you to the top 3 percent.
— Brian Tracy
Short, sweet, and to the point. Clear writing, and therefore clear commands, comes from clear thinking. Think simple.
— Tim Ferriss
If you want to write, write. It's as simple as that.
— K.D. Green
I have wrought my simple planIf I give one hour of joy
To the boy who's half a man,
Or the man who's half a boy. — Arthur Conan Doyle
Writing has never been that simple for me.
— Pat Conroy
Two very simple rules: A. You don't have to write.
B. You can't do anything else
The rest comes of itself. — Raymond Chandler
When men ask me how I know so much about men, they get a simple answer: everything I know about men, I learned from me.
— Anton Chekhov
My working habits are simple: long periods of thinking, short periods of writing.
— Ernest Hemingway,
In the end our lives are nothing more than simple stories. It's good to occasionally step back and make sure you are the one writing.
— Jacob Mandel
He asked, "What makes a man a writer?" "Well," I said, "it's simple. You either get it down on paper, or jump off a bridge.
— Charles Bukowski
Prof. Emi Ito said "Lailah, if you can't explain the scientific observations in a simple sentence, it means you do not know enough.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
I like simple writing. I'd rather read Hemingway than Burroughs.
— Yannis Philippakis
Great writing is great writing. It's as simple as all that.
— Kate Mulgrew
Your writing should be filled with simple complexities and complex simplicities. Because that is life.
— Christy Hall
To win applause one must write stuff so simple that a coachman might sing it.
— Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Apply this simple rule to your conversations: If you wouldn't write it down and sign it, don't say it.
— H. Jackson Brown Jr.
Simple English is no one's mother tongue. It has to be worked for.
— Jacques Barzun
Amazing, really, to think of what a man could achieve with the simple ability to put pen to paper and spin a decent yarn.
— Graham Moore
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A simple [writing] style is the result of very hard work.
— William Zinsser
The simple everyday experiences become the doorway to new thoughts and inspirations.
— E.A. Bucchianeri
I do not distinguish between the construction of a book and that of a painting and I always proceed from the simple to the complex. - 1946 — Henri Matisse
