The document provides advice from various authors on writing. It emphasizes that writing requires effort and detail to be engaging. Details bring writing to life like a painting. Good writing also avoids being vague and ensures the reader understands without needing additional context. Concise writing uses words and details efficiently to clearly convey ideas.

1. “ You must not come lightly to the blank page.” Stephen King

3. “ Detail makes the difference between boring and terrific writing. It’s the difference between a pencil sketch and a lush oil painting. As a writer, words are your paint. Use all of your colors.” Rhys Alexander

4. “ If you would not be forgotten, as soon as you are rotten, either write things worth reading, or do things worth the writing.” Benjamin Franklin

5. “ Writing well means never having to say, ‘I guess you had to be there.’ Jef Mallett

6. “ Television has raised writing to a new low.” Samuel Goldwyn

7. “ Writing gives you the illusion of control, and then you realize it’s just an illusion, that people are going to bring their own stuff into it.” David Sedaris

8. “ If you don’t have time to read, you don’t have the time or the tools to write.” Stephen King

9. “ Vigorous writing is concise.” William Strunk Jr.