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Writing Quotes - Page 405

I can't stand it when people say, "If you're writing a novel, you should read this and that." Because it's like giving someone another person's prescription. How do you know that's what they need?

"Talking in Our Pajamas: A Conversation with Sandra Cisneros on Finding Your Voice, Fear of Highways, Tacos, Travel, and the Need for Peace in the World". Interview with Ruth Behar, quod.lib.umich.edu. 2008.

Good writing is clear. Talented writing is energetic. Good writing avoids errors. Talented writing makes things happen in the reader's mind - -vividly, forcefully.

Samuel R. Delany (2013). “About Writing: Seven Essays, Four Letters, & Five Interviews”, p.16, Wesleyan University Press

Women can spin very well; but they cannot make a good book of cookery.

"The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Including a Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides".

Tediousness is the most fatal of all faults.

Samuel Johnson, Baron Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay (1854). “Lives of the most eminent English poets: with critical observations on their works”, p.223