Quotes From Famous Writers

Joseph Conrad — “My task is, by the power of the written word, to make you hear, to make you feel. It is, before all, to make you see.”

Mark Twain — “The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter. It’s the difference between the lightning bug and the lightning.”

Edna Ferber — “Only amateurs say they write for their own amusement. Writing is not an amusing occupation. It’s a combination of ditch-digging, mountain climbing, treadmill, and childbirth. Writing may be interesting, absorbing, exhilarating, racking, relieving. But amusing? Never.”

Strunk & White — “Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a painting should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts.”