Good writing is remembering detail. Most people want to forget. Don't forget things that were painful or embarrassing or silly. Turn them… — Paula Danziger Copy Share Image
Avoid theatrical flourishes - the phrases that sound so damned good that they stand up and beg to be recognized as "good… — Donald Spoto Copy Share Image
“Good writing is like music. It has its distinctive rhythm, its pace, flow, cadence. It can be hummed. The great stylists seem… — Leonard Ray Teel Copy Share Image
There's not a conspiracy to prevent really good writing from being found You have to have the humility to fail over and… — Ray McKinnon Copy Share Image
If you don't allow yourself the possibility of writing something very, very bad, it would be hard to write something very good. — Steven Galloway Copy Share Image
I'm so respectful of good writing. It's the blueprint for the movie. You have to have that script there because, if you… — Molly Shannon Copy Share Image
You do an awful lot of bad writing in order to do any good writing. Incredibly bad. I think it would be… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
No blur of inexactness, no cloud of vagueness, is allowable in good writing; from the first seeing to the last putting down,… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
The only good writing is intuitive writing. It would be a big bore if you knew where it was going. It has… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Good scripts have always been, I think, hard to find. Good storytelling, good writing - it's just not easy. I have made… — Chris Cooper Copy Share Image
Part of what makes for good writing is an ear for what we would call the poetical. Poetry itself is another thing… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
I always tell my writing students that every good piece of writing begins with both a mystery and a love story. And… — Silas House Copy Share Image
read widely, not in order to copy someone else's style, but to learn to appreciate and recognize good writing and to see… — P. D. James Copy Share Image
I would rather not write if I'm depressed, or am going through a breakup, or I've had some disappointment, or I'm having… — Mandy Stadtmiller Copy Share Image
Writing, or at least good writing, is an outgrowth of that urge to use language to communicate complex ideas and experiences between… — John Green Copy Share Image
“... a slipstream of darkness so complete it helps illuminate the evening sky. It's like somebody dropped a dome over the ocean… — Tim Latham Copy Share Image
I never read prefaces, and it is not much good writing things just for people to skip. I wonder other authors have… — E. Nesbit Copy Share Image
Always care for the writing part first. Every good film project starts with good writing. If you have a good script, everything… — Giovanna Cau Copy Share Image
Good writing ... involves the agony of turning profoundly difficult thoughts into lucid form, then forcing them into the tight-fitting uniform of… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
I'm more interested in the writing than in the content per se (good writing can be about wallpaper and I'll devour it). — Katy Lederer Copy Share Image
The most important thing is to read as much as you can, like I did. It will give you an understanding of… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
Writing can come naturally to some. Still, when it comes to good writing, this is true: Easy reading is damn hard writing. — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Write about what you know and care deeply about. When one puts one's self on paper - that is what is called… — Joel Chandler Harris Copy Share Image
the problems of the human heart in conflict with itself which alone can make good writing because only that is worth writing… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“The written word is weak. Many people prefer life to it. Life gets your blood going, and it smells good. Writing is… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
Some of my favorite movies are action movies. You want something good to say. That comes from good writing. But writing is… — Jason Statham Copy Share Image
The good writing of any age has always been the product of someone's neurosis, and we'd have a mighty dull literature if… — William Styron Copy Share Image
Good writing is often about letting go of fear and affectation. Affectation itself, beginning with the need to define some sorts of… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
What's good about writing is that when you write novels or fiction, people can see that the problems in one region are… — Ngugi wa Thiong'o Copy Share Image
Good writing works from a simple premise: your experience is not yours alone, but in some sense a metaphor for everyone's. — Dorianne Laux 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---vividly, forcefully... — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
I guess it's a bit cliché, but as an actor, I really admire good writing. There are a lot of great ideas… — Mike Colter Copy Share Image
Anecdotes don't make good stories. Generally I dig down underneath them so far that the story that finally comes out is not… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
I have a very healthy appetite for good writing and good characters. Having weak writing is my biggest fear. — Michael K. Williams Copy Share Image
I love True Blood and Buffy, and, obviously, this is one of my favorite jobs that I've ever had - but not… — Alexandra Breckenridge Copy Share Image
My only close-to-game-plan is to follow good writing. If the writing is in TV or if it's in theater or in film,… — Adam Driver Copy Share Image
Somehow, some way, incredibly enough, good writing ultimately gets recognized. If you're a really good writer and deserve that honored position, then… — Rod Serling Copy Share Image
You can have good writing, but a great actor will make it feel and sound like great writing. You can have great… — Denis Leary Copy Share Image
“Really good writing has purpose and that purpose should be to shape other minds to desire truth and a more noble purpose… — Susan Waterfield Copy Share Image
If a man means his writing seriously, he must mean to write well. But how can he write well until he learns… — John Ciardi Copy Share Image
