I can shake off everything as I write; my sorrows disappear, my courage is reborn. – Anne Frank
The best way to improve your ability to think is to spend large chunks of time thinking. One way to force yourself to slow down and think is to write. Good writing requires good thinking. Writing gives poor thinking nowhere to hide. A lack of understanding becomes visible. – Shane Parrish
Writing a long email is easy; Writing a short one is hard. – Shane Parrish
If I waited for perfection I would never write a word. – Margaret Atwood
Good writing is clear thinking made visible. – Bill Wheeler
Writing helps you think because it gives you nowhere to hide. – Shane Parrish
Writing is the painting of the voice.
The worst thing you write is better than the best thing you did not write.
The role of a writer is not to say what we can all say, but what we are unable to say. – Anais Nin
I meant to write about death, only life came breaking in as usual – Virginia Woolf
An original writer is not one who imitates nobody, but one whom nobody can imitate. – Francois- Rene de Chateaubriand
There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you. – Maya Angelou
First drafts don’t have to be perfect. They just have to be written.
A writer, like an athlete, must ‘train’ every day. What did I do today to keep in ‘form’? – Susan Sontag
A writer should write what he has to say and not speak it. – Ernest Hemingway
Writing is an extreme privilege but it’s also a gift. It’s a gift to yourself and it’s a gift of giving a story to someone. – Amy Tan
A professional writer is an amateur who didn’t quit. – Richard Bach
The key to great writing is ordinary words and simple sentences. – Shane Parrish
The road to hell is paved with adverbs. – Stephen King
You might not write well everyday, but you can always edit a bad page. You can’t edit a blank page. – Jodi Picoult
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