There is no way of writing well and also of writing easily.

There's no such thing as perfect writing, just like there's no such thing as perfect despair.

Nobody told all the new computer writers that the essence of writing is rewriting. Just because they’re writing fluently doesn’t mean they’re writing well.

No one writes anything worth writing, unless he writes entirely for the sake of his subject.

I'm not a very good writer, but I'm an excellent rewriter.

To me there is no such thing as creative writing. It's either good writing, whatever the subject, or it's not creative.

A writer who does not write is nothing. One may as well be a fisherman who doesn't fish, a stripper who doesn't strip, or a beggar who doesn't beg.

Nobody told all the new computer writers that the essence of writing is rewriting.

The best writing is rewriting.

Good novels are not written, they're rewritten!

The only impeccable writers are those who never wrote.

The only kind of writing is rewriting.

People do not deserve good writing, they are so pleased with bad.

Good writin' ain't necessarily good readin'.