Nicholas Sparks Quotes

Learn to write well, or not to write at all.

There is no left and right in writing. There is only good and bad writing.

Once something is well-written, then everything else is gravy.

By writing quickly we are not brought to write well, but by writing well we are brought to write quickly.

Good writers are of necessity rare.

Ultimately, the first, best step in getting your work noticed is to write good work. If people don't engage in your writing, no amount of serialization or free downloads is going to matter. You have to write something worth reading, and often it takes time to get at that level.

Good writing is good writing, and I'm so happy when I read it.

My preference is for really good writing, and I just really don't care where it is.

There is no pleasure in the world like writing well and going fast.

The desire to write well can never be fulfilled without hard work.

Being literate as a writer is good craft, is knowing your job, is knowing how to use your tools properly and not to damage the tools as you use them.

Good writers hate bad writing but hating bad writing doesn’t make you good. Writing badly does.

You have to go where the good writing is.

Give me good writing, and I'll play it all day.

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

I associated excellence in writing with New York City.

There are some incredibly gifted writers in the world. You can count them on a hand. They're blessed, and they've worked at their craft, but there's very few.

Mainly I love working on good writing.

I am a stickler for damn good writing.

From writing rapidly it does not result that one writes well, but from writing well it results that one writes rapidly.

Writing is something that you can never do as well as it can be done. It is a perpetual challenge and it is more difficult than anything else that I have ever done.

Although there is no substitute for merit in writing, clarity comes closest to being one.

I think all good writing is a struggle. To write as well as you feel you can has to be a struggle, almost by definition, because you could always improve.

Our admiration of fine writing will always be in proportion to its real difficulty and its apparent ease.