Israel Zangwill Quotes

Anyone who doesn't read doesn't have any business writing.

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

I always encourage people in the early parts of their career to focus on writing. If you can communicate clearly, if you can articulate a thought, if you can write a great story, then you're going to be successful.

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

It is the glory and merit of some men to write well and of others not to write at all.

People just don't know how to write down a simple easy line. It's difficult for them; it's like trying to keep a hard-on while drowning - not many can do it.

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

What I'm interested in is how people are reading and writing English.

Sometimes, reading a blog, which I do infrequently, I see that generations of Americans have been wilfully crippled, and can no longer spell or write a sentence.

There's something magical about the idea that you can write something down and someone else can read it. I'm still mildly agog about that.

If you can talk, you can write.

A.J. Liebling, one of my heroes, used to say that he could write better than anyone who wrote faster, and faster than anyone who could write better. I'm one nine-hundredth as good as Liebling, but that principle may slightly apply.

There's definitely a value in being literate.

I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better.

Just because someone has stylistic limitations doesn't necessarily make them a worse writer.

… a barbarian who could not write one sentence of grammar.

Generals who can write always make me nervous.

Writing is more important than being a writer.

It is always difficult to get across to people who are not professional writers that a talent to write does not mean a talent to write anything at all.

Editors, for the most part, don't care ''what'' you've done, or how astounding the physical event may have been. You need to write well. Many others are capable of doing what you have done (probably), so you must write better than they.

When I was younger, the main struggle was to be a 'good writer.' Now I more or less take my writing abilities for granted, although this doesn't mean I always write well.

I never write. Never! I do not even remember if I can write.

A people that grows accustomed to sloppy writing is a people in the process of losing grip on its empire and on itself.

I've always gotten good grades, you know, with my teachers and my English teachers, 'cause I was able to - they'd say, "What did you do for the summer?" I'm able to explain it to them in a written form. And my teachers always patted me on the back for that, being able to take what's in my mind and put it on paper.

I don't talk very well. With writing, you've time to get it right. Also I've found the more I talk the less I write, and if I didn't write no one would want me to talk anyway.