The scariest moment is always just before you start.
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
Nathaniel Hawthorne says, “Easy reading is damn hard writing.” I try to pull the language into such a sharpness that it jumps off the page. It must look easy, but it takes me forever to get it to look so easy."
― Maya Angelou, The Paris Review Interviews, IV
Don't look at your feet to see if you are doing it right. Just dance.
― Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird
The final test of a novel will be our affection for it, as it is the test of our friends, and of anything else which we cannot define.
― E.M. Forster, Aspects of the Novel
Just a couple of titles I'm familiar with. Share yours!
by Trick-Ask5752
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– **[Eats, Shoots & Leaves](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8600.Eats_Shoots_Leaves)**
I’d like to see it updated, but Steven Pinker’s “The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person’s Guide to Writing in the 21st Century” is worth a read.
Strunk and White’s Elements of Style.