4 Quotes by Patricia T. O'Conner

Whenever there's something wrong with your writing, suspect that there's something wrong with your thinking.

If the good news from cyberspace is that we’re writing more, the bad news is that most of us aren’t very good at it. Our words don’t do justice to our ideas.

First, you need something to organize: ideas, material, scraps of expertise, recipes, prognostications, anecdotes, scurrilous gossip, anything that might be relevant to what you want to write. And you get this stuff by hoarding it, by faithfully making notes and squirreling them away.

Contrary to popular opinion, there’s no mystery to writing well. It’s a skill that just about anyone can learn, more craft than art.