Good writing is good writing, but that doesn't mean you can't orchestrate it or tweak it. — John Travolta Copy Share Image
The man of understanding can no more sit quiet and resigned while his country lets its literature decay, and lets good writing… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
Good writing does not succeed or fail on the strength of its ability to persuade. It succeeds or fails on the strength… — Malcolm Gladwell 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
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
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
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 isn’t a science. It’s an art, and the horizon is infinite. You can always get better. — David Foster Wallace 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
Love is the main generator of all good writing... Love, passion, compassion, are all welded together. — Carson McCullers Copy Share Image
I write less about alcohol, less and less and less. You 're an addict - so of course you write about the… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
If the project has good writing and is something I get excited about, then I'll do the role. And if it's for… — Gbenga Akinnagbe 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
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
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
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
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
As an actor you get categorized by other people, but it's not like I arrange myself into comedy mode or serious mode.… — Sophie Thompson Copy Share Image
Don't hedge your prose with little timidities. Good writing is lean and confident. . . . Every little qualifier whittles away some… — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
What's great about good writing is that it feels like life, so it's not hard to relate to her circumstances. — Carrie Coon Copy Share Image
Good writing and dark wit always excite me and they come together thrillingly in this book. It has a quiet grip on… — Jenny Diski Copy Share Image
