The good writing of any age has always been the product of someone's neurosis. — William Styron Copy Share Image
All the elements of good writing depend on the writer's skill in choosing one word instead of another. — Francine Prose Copy Share Image
“...no good writing flows from a polluted well - you can write about monsters, but you can't be one...” — John Geddes Copy Share Image
“Good writing is made up of characters who are bigger than their circumstances.” — Michael Knight Copy Share Image
“There is really only one way to learn good writing: good reading and extensive writing and revising.” — Robert Lane Greene Copy Share Image
As an actor, my main focus is finding good writing and attacking a good role. — Amanda Peet Copy Share Image
Because good writing in a TV cartoon is so rare, I think the animation on The Simpsons is often overlooked. — Matt Groening Copy Share Image
If the communication is perfect, the words have life, and that is all there is to good writing, putting down on the… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
Novelists are no more moral or certain than anybody else; we are ideologically adrift, and if we are any good then our… — Andrew O'Hagan Copy Share Image
I've hung out in the writer's room a few times, but the fact is we've got such a good writing staff, I… — Patton Oswalt Copy Share Image
I think that good writing is based on good reading. Maybe it's not about writing today, maybe it's about reading today. Maybe… — Saul Williams Copy Share Image
When you've got good writing, you can kind of give up all the research, in a way, and start just following the… — Linus Roache Copy Share Image
Knowledge is the foundation and source of good writing. [Lat., Scibendi recte sapere est et principium et fons.] — Horace Copy Share Image
Good writing is about finding and exploiting anecdotes that resonate with the reader. In storytelling, it's OK if you only make one… — Ben Clymer Copy Share Image
Good writing is writing and rewriting and rewriting and rewriting. Sometimes, it happens to work right away, and that's amazing. But most… — Kate Beaton Copy Share Image
There are so many burning issues to be dealt with that it's completely understandable and natural that a character is struggling with… — Colm Meaney Copy Share Image
Almost all good writing begins with terrible first efforts. You need to start somewhere. Start by getting something—anything—down on paper. What I’ve… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
It goes without saying that a good Catholic novel should be good craftsmanship, good writing skills. The creative person must always be… — Michael O'Brien Copy Share Image
“.. they look like they've escaped from a nursing home. Everywhere I turn I see puffy skin & radiant expressions, crinkles &… — Tim Latham Copy Share Image
“Bad writing is more than a matter of shit syntax and faulty observation; bad writing usually arises from a stubborn refusal to… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
It felt good to be writing in her own room, in her own bed. To get lost in the World of Mages… — Rainbow Rowell Copy Share Image
“Good writing is clear. Talented writing is energetic. Good writing avoids errors. Talented writing makes things happen in the reader’s mind —… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
I don't want to speak too disparagingly of my generation (actually I do, we had a chance to change the world and… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Almost everyone can remember losing his or her virginity, and most writers can remember the first book he/she walked away from thinking,… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
It's been reinforced to me, and it's a little cliche, but I've learned that you can't make a movie that even works,… — Ben Affleck Copy Share Image
“After his initial homecoming week, after he'd been taken to a bunch of sights by his cousins, after he'd gotten somewhat used… — Junot Díaz Copy Share Image
Nothing frustrates me more than someone who reads something of mine or anyone else's and says, angrily, 'I don't buy it.' Why… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
“Read good writing, and don’t live in the present. Live in the deep past, with the language of the Koran or the… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“Show Pleasant Riderhood a Wedding in the street, and she only saw two people taking out a regular license to quarrel and… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Our tragedy today is a general and universal physical fear so long sustained by now that we can even bear it. There… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
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