Writer S Skill Quotes

#1. All the elements of good writing depend on the writer's skill in choosing one word instead of another.

Francine Prose

#2. It is almost possible to measure a writer's skill by the dexterity with which he repeats, and yet avoids monotony.

George G. Williams

#3. Then the true true is diff'rent to the seemin' true? said I.
Yay, an' it usually is, I mem'ry Meronym sain', an' that's why true true is presher'n'rarer'n diamonds

David Mitchell

#4. Fresh, solid ideas feel like gifts to writers, therefore every morning is Christmas.

Criss Jami

#5. It is a grave disservice to the heart, soul, body and spirit of a woman when she is given the subtle message that the truth of her own pain is not as important as the reputation of the ones who inflict it.

Hillary McFarland

#6. Threatened folk live long.

Walter Scott

#7. The real skill of being a writer is being able to take your inspired moments, and make them work as a whole, through the unromantic, daily hard work.

Nick Blaemire

#8. When you're a writer, you have to have the passion and the skill and the craft. It's not just enough to have the passion. You've gotta have all three.

Harlan Ellison

#9. Many times, what people call 'writer's block' is the confusion that happens when a writer has a great idea, but their writing skill is not up to the task of putting that idea down on paper. I think that learning the craft of writing is critical.

Pearl Cleage

#10. Journalist: a person without any ideas but with an ability to express them; a writer whose skill is improved by a deadline: the more time he has, the worse he writes.

Karl Kraus

#11. I wonder
if I should let my hair go grey
so my advice will be better.

Margaret Atwood

#12. It is insight into human nature that is the key to the communicator's skill. For whereas the writer is concerned with what he puts into his writings, the communicator is concerned with what the reader gets out of it. He therefore becomes a student of how people read or listen.

William Bernbach

#13. Truth is, every writer has to be a good editor, and you have to edit yourself. It's a skill every writer has to acquire.

Lisa Scottoline

#14. I am human, and, yeah, I have very bad days.

Charlize Theron

#15. I've had my heart broken and then gone out and done dumb things.

Randy Houser

#16. Speech is highly elliptical. It would scarcely be endurable otherwise. Ellipsis is indispensable to the writer or speaker who wants to be brief and pithy, but it can easily cause confusion and obscurity and must be used with skill.

Bergen Evans

#17. As a writer, the main skill you need is curiosity. As a reader, the main tool you need is open-mindedness.

Gloria D. Gonsalves

#18. I just play basketball. I'm athletic. Skinny but strong, tall but quick.

Chamique Holdsclaw

#19. Fear is the great enemy of intimacy. Fear makes us run away from each other or cling to each other but does not create true intimacy.

Henri Nouwen

#20. My staff's job is to adjust to circumstances with technical precision and artful grace so that every patron has a wonderful experience.

Danny Meyer

#21. I wanted to be a writer and an artist. Learning to type as quickly as I could think was a needed skill and part of my long self-directed apprenticeship.

Jeffrey Zeldman

#22. Whenever any of these new writers come up who are brilliant, I always realize that you have more talent and more skill than any of them;---but circumstances have prevented you from realizing upon the fact for a long time. [About F. Scott Fitzgerald]

Maxwell Perkins

#23. My background is really being a writer's actor - that seems to be the way I work best, bringing out the best of writing. There's a whole range of acting skills, and some people can be astonishing with very poor material. That's not me; my skill is essentially unlocking the writing.

Lindsay Duncan

#24. I have never pretended to be a great writer. I am totally immodest about being a great reporter and a good news writer. I write fast and I write accurately, nearly as accurately as anybody can be, and that's my skill.

Walter Cronkite

#25. The best translators slip into the glove of a text and then turn it inside out into another language, and the whole thing comes out looking like a brand-new glove again. I'm completely in awe of this skill, since I happen to be both bilingual and a writer, but nevertheless a lousy translator.

Alma Guillermoprieto

#26. An epic subject requires a writer of epic skill and scope, and we have a perfect pairing in Cleopatra and Stacy Schiff. Absorbing and illuminating, this new biography will endure.

Jon Meacham

#27. I want a writer to trust my intelligence. After all, I trust her/his skill to entertain me.

Aleksandr Voinov

#28. It's the kind of kiss that inspires stars to climb into the sky and light up the world.

Tahereh Mafi

#29. Places of learning are full to brimming, but those with a real thirst for knowledge are few. Remain true to yourself and never stop learning ...

Stephen Richards

#30. There's less skill and more plain hard work to writing than anyone except a writer thinks.

Mabel Seeley

#31. They get the same rush from a well-executed trade that a writer finds in a well-turned paragraph - not because there's money in it, necessarily, but because it takes technical skill and some measure of creative thinking to pull off.

Anonymous

#32. In fact, one could argue that the skill of the fiction writer boils down to the ability to exploit intensity.

James Scott Bell

#33. The best thing I've ever heard another player say is, 'I hate playing against you.'

Logan Mankins

#34. When you combine something to say with the skill to say it properly, then you've got a good writer.

Theodore Sturgeon

#35. Heartbreak is its own form of amnesia.

Lauren Kate

#36. I had to learn a skill set. I think I had the materials to be a good comedy writer.

Mindy Kaling