Tom Weston-Jones Quotes

Ultimately, it's about the quality of the writing whatever style you are writing.

One mistake with beginners in writing is, that they think it important to spin out something long. It is a great deal better not to write more than a page or two, unless you have something to say, and can write it correctly.

I think I personally, as a writer, read differently knowing how tough it is to write, knowing how challenging it is to articulate it, to express clearly and economically and with focus and with purpose.

I made a deliberate choice to write something people would enjoy, not knock people out with 'Boy, he can really put a clause together!'

You have to have something worth saying and then the ability to say it- writing's a double skill, really.

The elegance and the quality - the talent is always in the literature. I start with the word and I base everything on that. It doesn't make any difference to me.

I've always written very tightly, and there's a good reason for that. There's no point in using words that you're not going to apply.

What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.

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.

Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear.

I think about the sentence a long time, and then I write it. I don't revise it once it's set down.

Style matters, but the real force of writing is ideas, not style.

Did you ever admire an empty-headed writer for his or her mastery of the language? No. So your own winning style must begin with ideas in your head.

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

Writing is a struggle no matter what the genre.

The future author is one who discovers that language, the exploration and manipulation of the resources of language, will serve him in winning through to his way.

Because the more you write the more you're aware of the weight of your tradition and the difficulties of the form and the more you have already done that you do not want to do again.

It's all in the writing. The writing has got to be there. Whether that's dialogue or character, or whatever, it doesn't matter. As long as they've done something special, than you can do something special.

I don't know if I am a good, average, or bad writer, but I write fast. Everything I observe, my experiences and imagination come together while writing.

The thing about good writing is it has a music to it.

When I read 'Greenberg,' I had a really strong sense if I could be any kind of writer I wanted to be, I'd be this kind of writer. And I felt like, even in my experiences, what writing I had done, even on a small scale, when it was good, it shared some quality with it.

You just can't make bad writing look good. But if you have good writing, you just say it, and it's almost done.

A writer is defined by the language in which he writes, and I would stick to that definition.

Mainly I love working on good writing.

The novelist's obsession, moment by moment, is with language: finding the right next word.