Christopher Paolini Quotes

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

Doing interesting things and then writing about them is the best way to become a good writer.

And the most important thing you can do is learn to edit yourself. And then go back and rewrite.

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.

The best way to become a successful writer is to read good writing, remember it, and then forget where you remember it from.

We all need to focus on our writing. Because the millions of readers out there don't care about your blog.

Write for yourself, not for a perceived audience. If you do, you'll mostly fall flat on your face, because it's impossible to judge what people want. And you have to read. That's how you learn what is good writing and what is bad. Then the main thing is application. It's hard work.

The more you write, the more you're capable of writing.

In the best possible scenario, whenever you get notes from people, they're good notes, and they see things that you wouldn't have seen otherwise, and they make you a better writer.

I've grown more and more appreciative of good writing, and I now really hope I can become a better and better writer.

Write quickly and you will never write well; write well, and you will soon write quickly.

You start realizing that good prose is crunchy. There's texture in your mouth as you say it. You realize bad writing, bland writing, has no texture, no taste, no corners in your mouth. I'm a great believer in reading aloud.

Good authors mature over time: it does take awhile.

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

If you have a craftsman's command of the language and basic writing techniques you'll be able to write - as long as you know what you want to say.

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

It's very hard to articulate the things that are important about writing.

One reason I encourage people to blog is that the act of doing it stretches your available vocabulary and hones a new voice.

I've discovered as an author that the process of writing a novel becomes harder over time, not easier. I used to think the reverse must be true, that it would be like any task, and the more I practiced, the more adept I'd become.

Writing is a muscle that needs to be exercised every day: The more you write, the easier it becomes.

I'm a better writer than I am a singer, and I express myself easily through writing.

I was a better writer when I was teaching. I was constantly going over the basics and constantly reminding myself, as I reminded my students, what made a good story, a good poem.

It took me six novels before I felt confident of my voice as a writer.

Writing is one of the few activities where quantity will inevitably make quality. The more you write, the better you're going to get at it.

Sit down and put down everything that comes into your head and then you're a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff's worth, without pity, and destroy most of it.