“Agents don’t sell books, good writing does. Plotting and characterization are what interest an editor. Agents negotiate contracts, but they don’t sell… — Debbie Macomber Copy Share Image
For me, it's always about what's on the page. I have tremendous respect for writing. When you recognize good writing, and you're… — Nestor Carbonell Copy Share Image
There's a perception that good writing is writing which runs smoothly. But smooth-running prose can work against what you're trying to express… — Katie Kitamura Copy Share Image
Good writing is almost the concomitant of good history. Literature and history were joined long since by the powers which shaped the… — C. V. Wedgwood Copy Share Image
The heart and soul of good writing is research; you should write not what you know but what you can find out… — Robert J. Sawyer Copy Share Image
I know I'm really good at writing for the theater. I can deny it all I want. Other people can fight me… — Jason Robert Brown Copy Share Image
I love a mask. It's why I've got a thing about good writing. When you're acting, you're going into someone else's work.… — Felicity Kendal Copy Share Image
Good writing happens when human beings follow particular steps to take control of their sentences-to make their words do what they want… — Ralph Fletcher Copy Share Image
“Then there were his education and his reading, the books he bought and borrowed, his knowledge of things that could not be… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
I had the most incredible English and literature teachers in school, and it really influenced my love of storytelling. It's what made… — Sophia Bush Copy Share Image
“To my mind, nothing is as important as good writing, because in literature, the walls between people and cultures are broken down,… — Richard Bausch Copy Share Image
“Good writing should help us see the world in new ways, it should crack open our generosity towards each other. That's what… — Patrick Hicks Copy Share Image
Good writing is a kind of skating which carries off the performer where he would not go, and is only right admirable… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Good writing is good writing. In many ways, it’s the audience and their expectations that define a genre. A reader of literary… — Rosemary Clement-Moore Copy Share Image
By the time I am nearing the end of a story, the first part will have been reread and altered and corrected… — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
That is as true for fiction or non-fiction. The writer has to really know their subject. It is really important to remember… — Michael Scott Copy Share Image
Wherein we discover that many of the "rules" for good writing and good sex are the same: Keep your hand moving, lose… — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
You have to be an extremely good reader to appreciate what a good writer is. There are some people who are completely… — Robert Caro Copy Share Image
I've grown more and more appreciative of good writing, and I now really hope I can become a better and better writer. — James Lapine Copy Share Image
Good writing , like gold , combines lustrous lucidity with high density. What this means is good writing is packed with hints. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
The best way to become a successful writer is to read good writing, remember it, and then forget where you remember it… — Gene Fowler Copy Share Image
Screenwriting is always about what people say or do, whereas good writing is about a thought process or an abstract image or… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
So far as good writing goes, the use of the exclamation mark is a sign of failure. It is the literary equivalent… — Miles Kington Copy Share Image
Good writing is often about trying to investigate something you feel is missing and trying to put it back. — Abi Morgan Copy Share Image
The chief difference between good writing and better writing may be measured by the number of imperceptible hesitations the reader experiences as… — James J. Kilpatrick Copy Share Image
Beauty and truth may be attributes of good writing, but if the writer deliberately aims at truth, he is likely to find… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
Tomorrow may be hell, but today was a good writing day, and on the good writing days nothing else matters. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I want to keep doing different things. I'd like to do a more personal, dramatic movie next, I think. But as long… — Tony Goldwyn Copy Share Image
People say I'm not good at writing about men. My dad left when I was 16. Give me a break. I'm doing… — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
It was a dark and stormy night. Suddenly a scream pierced the air'. . . . Good writing takes enormous concentration. — Charles M. Schulz Copy Share Image
I think that's one of the maybe under-discussed aspects of process - the difference between a good writing day and a bad… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
A sustained engagement with the world, a sense of how it was and how it ought to be, and what has been… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
You just can't make bad writing look good. But if you have good writing, you just say it, and it's almost done. — Carol Kane Copy Share Image
With fiction, it could be about anything. It just has to be good writing, like Maria Semple's "Where'd You Go, Bernadette," which… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
All I want is a modest place in Mr X's Good Reading, Miss Y's Good Writing, and that new edition of One… — James Agate Copy Share Image
“What needs to be reinforced is the idea that good writing - solid, honest, entertaining, beautiful good writing - is simultaneously the… — Tom Bissell Copy Share Image
I think all good writing is a struggle. To write as well as you feel you can has to be a struggle,… — Jane Asher Copy Share Image
Good writing shouldn't be wrapped in cellophane. It should be open to the elements and full of maggots and it should be… — Zawe Ashton Copy Share Image
It may be observed of good writing, as of good blood, that it is much easier to say what it is composed… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
