Gene Weingarten Quotes about Writing

Mostly, you become a writer not because you want to get rich or famous, but because you have to write; because there is something inside that must come out.

Mostly, you become a writer not because you want to get rich or famous, but because you have to write; because there is something inside that must come out.

Gene Weingarten

Writing, Want, Rich

Gene Weingarten (2010). “The Fiddler in the Subway: The Story of the World-Class Violinist Who Played for Handouts. . . And Other Virtuoso Performances by America's Foremost Feature Writer”, p.55, Simon and Schuster

The one thing an aspiring writer must understand is that it's hard. If you think it's not hard, you're not doing it right.

Gene Weingarten

Writing, Thinking, One Thing

Well, let’s start with the maxim that the best writing is understated, meaning it’s not full of flourishes and semaphores and tap dancing and vocabulary dumps that get in the way of the story you are telling. Once you accept that, what are you left with? You are left with the story you are telling. The story you are telling is only as good as the information in it: things you elicit, or things you observe, that make a narrative come alive; things that support your point not just through assertion, but through example; quotes that don’t just convey information, but also personality.

Gene Weingarten

Writing, Vocabulary, Dancing

Gene Weingarten Quotes about Writing

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