Love is the main generator of all good writing... Love, passion, compassion, are all welded together. — Carson McCullers Copy Share Image
My gratitude for good writing is unbounded; I’m grateful for it the way I’m grateful for the ocean. — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
I am always writing. It is not always good, but if I am writing, I am usually happy. — Matthew Nable Copy Share Image
My writing improved the more I wrote - and the more I read good writing, from Shakespeare on down. — Dick Schaap Copy Share Image
Get it down. Take chances. It may be bad, but that's the only way you can do anything really good. — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
I never feel more myself than when I’m writing; I never enjoy any day more than a good writing day. — Anthony Minghella Copy Share Image
“She smiled. "How...cute." She chose the word rather like a candy, which she bit.” — Matthew Skelton Copy Share Image
Marc Cherry is so good at writing himself into a corner, then writing himself out of that corner. It's really fun to… — Grant Show 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 must stay open to the questions and not fall prey to the pull of a polemic, otherwise, words simply become… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
Good writing is always about things that are important to you, things that are scary to you, things that eat you up. — John Edgar Wideman Copy Share Image
When you have good writing, the rhythm of the scene is very apparent. What the scene demands is very clear. — Carrie Coon Copy Share Image
There is more good writing and good acting in any ten minutes of Twister than in, say, all of Citizen Kane. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
I would say that I am proud of my performance from Cracker and I think a lot of that was due to… — Boti Bliss Copy Share Image
I think finally good writing gets out there, and people like it, and bad writing doesn't. Well, no. Bad writing does get… — Robert B. Parker Copy Share Image
Most good writing is clear, vigorous, honest, alive, sensuous, appropriate, unsentimental, rhythmic, without pretension, fresh, metaphorical, evocative in sound, economical, authoritative, surprising,… — Ken Macrorie Copy Share Image
Inspiration comes from so many sources. Music, other fiction, the non-fiction I read, TV shows, films, news reports, people I know, stories… — Trudi Canavan Copy Share Image
I started writing while I was a little boy. Maybe it's because I was reading a lot of books I admired, and… — Naguib Mahfouz Copy Share Image
Perhaps that is nearly the perfection of good writing which is original, but whose truth alone prevents the reader from suspecting that… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
My preference is for good writing. It doesn't matter if it's for film or TV. Whatever. It starts with the writing. Even… — James Nesbitt 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
I don't think that writing, real writing, has much to do with affirming belief--if anything it causes rifts and gaps in belief… — Brian Evenson Copy Share Image
If we marvel at the artist who has written a great book, we must marvel more at those people whose lives are… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
The secret of good writing is to say an old thing in a new way or to say a new thing in… — Richard Harding Davis Copy Share Image
Almost all good writing begins with terrible first efforts. You need to start somewhere. — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
When people say to me, 'Why are you so good at writing at women?' I say, 'Why isn't everybody?' — Joss Whedon 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
Good writing of course requires talent, and no one can teach you to have talent. — Peter Carey Copy Share Image
Good writing is formed partly through plan and partly through accident. — Ken Macrorie Copy Share Image
Clichés are what good writing is all about. Because our lives are basically clichés. — Sylvester Stallone Copy Share Image
The thing I am attracted to is just good writing and stories that are based somewhat in reality. — Jennifer Aniston Copy Share Image
Good writing is deceptive in that it hides its own artifice - it makes it seem easy. — Michael Arndt Copy Share Image
Good writing will bring you to places you don't even expect sometimes. — James Gandolfini Copy Share Image
Good writers hate bad writing but hating bad writing doesn’t make you good. Writing badly does. — Dan Harmon Copy Share Image
