Good writing Quotes · Page 5

Good directing is good writing and good casting.

— Robert Zemeckis

Let us prove to the world that good taste, good art, and good writing can be good selling.

— William Bernbach

“The secret to good writing is to use small words for big ideas, not to use big words for small ideas.”

— Oliver Markus

“Don't write 40k if the same story can be told in 10k words.”

— Oliver Markus Malloy

Just as a good rain clears the air, a good writing day clears the psyche.

— Julia Cameron

Good writing is like a bomb: it explodes in the face of the reader.

— Nuruddin Farah

There's such good writing now on television and I don't see a lot of great writing on films sadly.

— Scott Speedman

Love is the main generator of all good writing... Love, passion, compassion, are all welded together.

— Carson McCullers

People do not deserve good writing, they are so pleased with bad.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Another thing that's good about writing to describe a situation or a state of consciousness is that you can finally get it…

— Richard Hell

When you recognize good writing and you're lucky enough to get it, like with Lost, that's what I follow.

— Nestor Carbonell

There is more good writing and good acting in any ten minutes of Twister than in, say, all of Citizen Kane.

— Orson Scott Card

I would say that I am proud of my performance from Cracker and I think a lot of that was due to…

— Boti Bliss

I think finally good writing gets out there, and people like it, and bad writing doesn't. Well, no. Bad writing does get…

— Robert B. Parker

I just keep following the good writing. I'm not good enough to make bad writing look good. Some people can, and I…

— Paul Sparks

Good writing takes place at intersections, at what you might call knots, at places where the society is snarled or knotted up.

— Margaret Atwood

I suppose with any good writing and interesting characters, you can have that awfully overused word [...] - a jouuuuuurney.

— Alan Rickman

The studios don't seem to foster good writing. They're not so interested in that, but they're more interested in what worked most…

— Bill Murray

If the project has good writing and is something I get excited about, then I'll do the role. And if it's for…

— Gbenga Akinnagbe

“We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Good writing starts strong. Not with a cliché (“Since the…

— Anonymous

As an actor you get categorized by other people, but it's not like I arrange myself into comedy mode or serious mode.…

— Sophie Thompson

If we marvel at the artist who has written a great book, we must marvel more at those people whose lives are…

— Katherine Paterson

I don't think that writing, real writing, has much to do with affirming belief--if anything it causes rifts and gaps in belief…

— Brian Evenson

Inspiration comes from so many sources. Music, other fiction, the non-fiction I read, TV shows, films, news reports, people I know, stories…

— Trudi Canavan

I started writing while I was a little boy. Maybe it's because I was reading a lot of books I admired, and…

— Naguib Mahfouz

My preference is for really good writing, and I just really don't care where it is.

— Carol Kane

My gratitude for good writing is unbounded; I’m grateful for it the way I’m grateful for the ocean.

— Anne Lamott

All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

I am always writing. It is not always good, but if I am writing, I am usually happy.

— Matthew Nable

My writing improved the more I wrote - and the more I read good writing, from Shakespeare on down.

— Dick Schaap

“She smiled. "How...cute." She chose the word rather like a candy, which she bit.”

— Matthew Skelton

It takes a lot of bad writing to get to a little good writing.

— Truman Capote

Get it down. Take chances. It may be bad, but that's the only way you can do anything really good.

— William Faulkner

I never feel more myself than when I’m writing; I never enjoy any day more than a good writing day.

— Anthony Minghella

Good writing of course requires talent, and no one can teach you to have talent.

— Peter Carey

I subscribe to about 200 blogs. I look for insights and good writing, and I look to get smarter.

— Evan Williams

Good writing is formed partly through plan and partly through accident.

— Ken Macrorie

The thing about good writing is it has a music to it.

— Lauren Graham

Good writing is full of surprises and novelties, moving in a direction you don't expect.

— Iris Murdoch

The secret of good writing is to say an old thing in a new way or to say a new thing in…

— Richard Harding Davis