Write Better

Journalist, based in London. Helping you become a better writer, one tweet at a time.

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Sometimes I let myself feel the pain a little bit, as a treat

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"Language alone protects us from the scariness of things with no names."

- Toni Morrison

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"Writing to me is an advanced and slow form of reading."

- Toni Morrison

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"One cannot grow fine flowers in a thin soil."

- Virginia Woolf

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"No one can escape the power of language."

- Virginia Woolf

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"I think writing, my writing, is a species of mediumship. I become the person."

- Virginia Woolf

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"The most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in, shock-proof, shit detector."

- Ernest Hemingway

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"It's none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way."

- Ernest Hemingway

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"When you get the damned hurt use it — don't cheat with it."

- Ernest Hemingway

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"We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master."

- Ernest Hemingway

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"All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence you know."

- Ernest Hemingway

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"It is necessary to write, if the days are not to slip emptily by."

- Vita Sackville-West

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"The effort of expression has a bearing not only on the form but on the thought and on the whole inner being."

- Simone Weil

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"One cannot be taught how to write. One teaches oneself by writing."

- Alec Waugh

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"Writers take words seriously — perhaps the last professional class that does."

- John Updike

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"How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live."

- Henry David Thoreau

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"The writer must believe that what he is doing is the most important thing in the world."

- John Steinbeck

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"Say all you have to say in the fewest possible words."

- John Ruskin

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"I have always felt that the position of an author is not and cannot be distinguished and respectable, except in so far as it is not a profession."

- Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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"I felt that writing for bread would soon have stifled my genius and destroyed my talents."

- Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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"To give life shape—that is what a writer does. That is what is so difficult."

- Jean Rhys