“All good writing is like swimming underwater and holding your breath.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“The secret of good writing is to say an old thing in a new way or a new thing in an old… — Richard Harding Davis Copy Share Image
Good sense is both the first principal and the parent source of good writing. — Horace Copy Share Image
I don't think you get to good writing unless you expose yourself and your feelings. — Judy Collins Copy Share Image
“The key to good writing is to leave Boo Radley in the house until the end of the story.” — Michael P. Naughton Copy Share Image
People do not deserve to have good writing, they are so pleased with bad. — Ralph Waldo Emerson 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
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
To me there is no such thing as creative writing. It's either good writing, whatever the subject, or it's not creative. — Erskine Caldwell Copy Share Image
I wouldn't say I have comedy chops. I guess you get lucky with good writing because I don't think I'm a comedian… — Michael Pena Copy Share Image
I wish you good writing and good luck. Even if you've already done the good writing, you'll still need the good luck.… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
All good writing is built one good line at a time. You build a novel the same way you do a pyramid.… — Kate Braverman Copy Share Image
Good writing is good writing no matter what genre you're writing in, and I believe that there are only a handful of… — Georgia Heard Copy Share Image
“Good fiction writers have an instinctive understanding of human nature. That's what makes stories and characters captivating. Good spiritual writers share what… — Donna Goddard Copy Share Image
And the writers are good in that it's easy to memorize, and good writing has an innate rhythm to it. And I've… — Glenn Close Copy Share Image
“Write at a pace that doesn't surpass your creative flow. Don't be hasty; don't be sloppy. Don't forfeit impressive writing for an… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
Most of my stuff is just a series of false leads. I'll approach a story as a subject and then make a… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
Sometime really good writing does you a disservice as an actor. Because you can get lazy. It's doing a lot of the… — Meryl Streep Copy Share Image
Left to it's own devices, writing is like weather. It has a drama, a form, a force to it that shapes the… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
“The young man or woman writing today has forgotten the problems of the human heart in conflict with itself which alone can… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think the benefit of being a writer is that I'm looking for the subtext on the page, because all good writing… — Richard Dormer Copy Share Image
My being a writer and playing Scrabble are connected. If I have a good writing day, I'll take a break and play… — Meg Wolitzer Copy Share Image
“The writer doesn’t need economic freedom. All he needs is a pencil and some paper. I’ve never known anything good in writing… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
Distinguish between the work and the job title. When I was leaving school in the early 1970s, many people wanted to be… — Howard Gardner Copy Share Image
Comedy is more difficult than drama. I think it's really difficult to make someone laugh because people have very different comedic sensibilities.… — Aimee Garcia 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
The first is that good writing consists of mastering the fundamentals (vocabulary, grammar, the elements of style) and then filling the third… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I Need a Good Book I need a good story. I need a good book. The kind that explodes Off the shelf.… — John Lithgow Copy Share Image
I write less about alcohol, less and less and less. You 're an addict - so of course you write about the… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
“But the secret of good writing is to strip every sentence to its cleanest components. Every words that serves no function, every… — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
