Good writing will bring you to places you don't even…

I like dark places.

— James Gandolfini

There is sometimes a feeling in crime fiction that good writing gets in the way of story. I have never felt that way. All…

— John Connolly

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

— Brian Evenson

“But the secret of good writing is to strip every sentence to its cleanest components. Every words that serves no function, every long word…

— William Zinsser

There is no royal path to good writing; and such paths as exist do not lead through neat critical gardens, various as they are,…

— Jessamyn West

As we go through this transition where a lot more people will be reading on devices, nobody is paying enough attention to make sure…

— James Patterson

Our tragedy today is a general and universal physical fear so long sustained by now that we can even bear it. There are no…

— William Faulkner

Good writing is lean and confident.

— Anonymous

I think that's one of the maybe under-discussed aspects of process - the difference between a good writing day and a bad one is…

— George Saunders

The very first thing I tell my new students on the first day of a workshop is that good writing is about telling the…

— Anne Lamott

Hypertext makes a virtue out of lack of organization, allowing ideas and thoughts to be juxtaposed at will. [...] The advent of hypertext is…

— Donald A. Norman

Agents and publishers only want one thing - good writing.

— Jasper Fforde

David Mamet, Tim Kazurinsky, and Denise DeClue, who adapted [ About Last Night]. Between the three of them... I mean, it's always down to…

— Rob Lowe

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

— Trudi Canavan

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, that's it.…

— Adam Driver