“...no good writing flows from a polluted well - you can write about monsters, but you can't be one...” — John Geddes Copy Share Image
The good writing of any age has always been the product of someone's neurosis. — William Styron Copy Share Image
An essential element for good writing is a good ear: One must listen to the sound of one's own prose. — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
All the elements of good writing depend on the writer's skill in choosing one word instead of another. — Francine Prose Copy Share Image
I always had a thing for writing. Even when I was in school, I was always good at writing. — Jay IDK Copy Share Image
Writing is not about making a buck, not about publishers and agents. Writing is not about feeling good. Writing is about pain,… — Sue Grafton Copy Share Image
I'm not happy that death is approaching because I like being alive but I'm glad I've escaped the two-post-a-day economy of contemporary… — Robert Christgau Copy Share Image
Good writing never soothes or comforts. It is no prescription, neither is it diversionary, although it can and should enchant while it… — Joy Williams Copy Share Image
I'm very driven by writing. Coming from 'Saturday Night Live,' because it's such a writing job, and we all write our parts… — Molly Shannon Copy Share Image
I suppose with any good writing and interesting characters, you can have that awfully overused word: a journey. — Alan Rickman Copy Share Image
It gives me great pleasure, a good name. I always in writing start with a name. Give me a name and it… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
Everyone says TV's going down the tubes, and it's all reality, but there's some really good writing and some amazing opportunities if… — Lindsay Price Copy Share Image
There is no royal path to good writing; and such paths as exist do not lead through neat critical gardens, various as… — Jessamyn West Copy Share Image
“.. they look like they've escaped from a nursing home. Everywhere I turn I see puffy skin & radiant expressions, crinkles &… — Tim Latham Copy Share Image
There are so many burning issues to be dealt with that it's completely understandable and natural that a character is struggling with… — Colm Meaney 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. What I’ve… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
There's a sureness to good writing even when what's being written about doesn't make all that much sense. It's the sureness of… — Anne Bernays Copy Share Image
Good writing is writing and rewriting and rewriting and rewriting. Sometimes, it happens to work right away, and that's amazing. But most… — Kate Beaton Copy Share Image
“He wrote as if he were the reader. It was also how he kept his writing from becoming too cute, which is… — Richard Castle Copy Share Image
And the writers are good in that it's easy to memorize, and good writing has an innate rhythm to it. And I've… — Glenn Close Copy Share Image
I don't know why he [Darren Star] is so good at writing for women. Maybe he just likes women. I'm not quite… — Sutton Foster Copy Share Image
I don't want to speak too disparagingly of my generation (actually I do, we had a chance to change the world and… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
And when you get an eminent journal like Time magazine complaining, as it often has, that to the young writers of today… — William Styron 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
The written word is weak. Many people prefer life to it. Life gets your blood going, & it smells good. Writing is… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
“Read good writing, and don’t live in the present. Live in the deep past, with the language of the Koran or the… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“After his initial homecoming week, after he'd been taken to a bunch of sights by his cousins, after he'd gotten somewhat used… — Junot Díaz Copy Share Image
“Almost everyone can remember losing his or her virginity, and most writers can remember the first book he/she walked away from thinking,… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
All writing is by the grace of God. People do not deserve to have good writing, they are so pleased with bad.… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
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