Good writing is difficult no matter what the reader's age-and children deserve the best. — Aaron Shepard Copy Share Image
Most of my work consisted of crossing out. Crossing out was the secret of all good writing. — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
I believe that writing is derivative. I think good writing comes from good reading. — Charles Kuralt Copy Share Image
“Half of good writing is having something interesting to say. The other half is saying it well.” — Walter Kim Copy Share Image
It's easy to write something average or even something good. But writing well is quite challenging. — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
Good writing is good writing, but that doesn't mean you can't orchestrate it or tweak it. — John Travolta Copy Share Image
I think that's what good writing is all about. You go into a genre to talk about other things. Tolkein created a… — Joe Morton Copy Share Image
“…After all, it isn't really difficult to write books. Especially if you either write a rotten story in good English or a… — Dorothy L. Sayers 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
We're not just writers; we're readers probably more than anything else. That's how you learn how to write and how you learn… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
“Good writing is supposed to evoke sensation in the reader, not the fact that it’s raining, but the feeling of being rained… — E. L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
I'm curious about writing in the age of online publishing. Because nobody cares about good writing online. — Biz Stone Copy Share Image
David Mamet, Tim Kazurinsky, and Denise DeClue, who adapted [ About Last Night]. Between the three of them... I mean, it's always… — Rob Lowe Copy Share Image
“Good writing is the hardest form of thinking. It involves the agony of turning profoundly difficult thoughts into a lucid form and… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
I think the thing that has made it possible for me to write personal songs and sing them year after year is… — Shawn Colvin Copy Share Image
As I started to read nonfiction in the mid '70s, I discovered, holy cow, there was a lot of imaginative nonfiction. Not… — David Quammen Copy Share Image
Really good writing, from my perspective, runs a lot like a visual on the screen. You need to create that kind of… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
Well, I've always been a character actor, you know, and you always get your share of character actors who are bad guys.… — Colm Meaney Copy Share Image
Most good writing is clear, vigorous, honest, alive, sensuous, appropriate, unsentimental, rhythmic, without pretension, fresh, metaphorical, evocative in sound, economical, authoritative, surprising,… — Ken Macrorie Copy Share Image
To write weekly, to write daily, to write shortly, to write for busy people catching trains in the morning or for tired… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Brendan O’Meara’s Six Weeks in Saratoga is a victory to be savored by those who treasure good writing in general and tales… — Madeleine Blais Copy Share Image
“I’ve gotten convinced that there’s something kind of timelessly vital and sacred about good writing. This thing doesn’t have that much to… — David Foster Wallace 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. A friend… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“Though they have things in common, good writing and talented writing are not the same. […] If you start with a confused,… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
Good writing is the hardest form of thinking. It involves the agony of turning profoundly difficult thoughts into lucid form, then forcing… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
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