Every page was once a blank page, just as every word that appears on it now was not always there, but instead… — Francine Prose Copy Share Image
All good writing is built one good line at a time. You build a novel the same way you do a pyramid.… — Kate Braverman Copy Share Image
But the thing that stands eternally in the way of really good writing is always one: the virtual impossibility of lifting to… — William Carlos Williams 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
It goes without saying that a good Catholic novel should be good craftsmanship, good writing skills. The creative person must always be… — Michael O'Brien Copy Share Image
All I've tried to do as an actor is follow the good writing. That's been my main drive. It's not always possible,… — Cillian Murphy 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
Good writing, in my opinion, is writing that looks really easy, so easy that a person who has never written more than… — Mary J. Miller Copy Share Image
I subscribe to about 200 blogs. I look for insights and good writing, and I look to get smarter. — Evan Williams 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
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
A young writer is easily tempted by the allusive and ethereal and ironic and reflective, but the declarative is at the bottom… — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
Good writing, and this is especially important in a subject such as economics, must also involve the reader in the matter at… — John Kenneth Galbraith 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
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
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 Need a Good Book I need a good story. I need a good book. The kind that explodes Off the shelf.… — John Lithgow 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
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
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 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
