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
Good writing is a kind of skating which carries off the performer where he would not go. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The secret of good writing is to strip every sentence to its cleanest components, — Anonymous 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
Good writing takes place at intersections, at what you might call knots, at places where the society is snarled or knotted up. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
I suppose with any good writing and interesting characters, you can have that awfully overused word [...] - a jouuuuuurney. — Alan Rickman Copy Share Image
To present a whole world that doesn’t exist and make it seem real, we have to more or less pretend we’re polymaths.… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
“All serious and good writing anticipates precisely this kind of reading-ruminative and leisurely, a dalliance with words in contrast to wolfing down… — Eugene H. Peterson Copy Share Image
“A writer needs to ingest love to be passionate. Passion is a metabolite of love, and good writing is an active metabolite… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
Good writing has an aliveness that keeps the reader reading from one paragraph to the next, and it's not a question of… — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
Writing stopped being fun when I discovered the difference between good writing and bad and, even more terrifying, the difference between it… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
You have to read a lot so you know what good writing looks like and you get inspired. You have to write… — Rick Riordan 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
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
I'm not an ad-libber. If I'm asked to ad-lib, I can ad-lib forever and it's really fun to do that, but I… — James Marsters Copy Share Image
Good writing is good writing. In many ways, it’s the audience and their expectations that define a genre. A reader of literary… — Rosemary Clement-Moore Copy Share Image
Don’t say you were a bit confused and sort of tired and a little depressed and somewhat annoyed. Be tired. Be confused.… — William Zinsser 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 should help us see the world in new ways, it should crack open our generosity towards each other. That's what… — Patrick Hicks Copy Share Image
Everybody walks past a thousand story ideas every day. The good writers are the ones who see five or six of them.… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
The heart and soul of good writing is research; you should write not what you know but what you can find out… — Robert J. Sawyer Copy Share Image
I know I'm really good at writing for the theater. I can deny it all I want. Other people can fight me… — Jason Robert Brown Copy Share Image
I love a mask. It's why I've got a thing about good writing. When you're acting, you're going into someone else's work.… — Felicity Kendal Copy Share Image
Good writing happens when human beings follow particular steps to take control of their sentences-to make their words do what they want… — Ralph Fletcher Copy Share Image
Rewrite and revise. Do not be afraid to seize what you have and cut it to ribbons ... Good writing means good revising. — William Strunk, Jr Copy Share Image
If you have other things in your life-family, friends, good productive day work-these can interact with your writing and the sum will… — David Brin 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
“Agents don’t sell books, good writing does. Plotting and characterization are what interest an editor. Agents negotiate contracts, but they don’t sell… — Debbie Macomber Copy Share Image
Good writing is almost the concomitant of good history. Literature and history were joined long since by the powers which shaped the… — C. V. Wedgwood Copy Share Image
I've grown more and more appreciative of good writing, and I now really hope I can become a better and better writer. — James Lapine Copy Share Image
Good writing , like gold , combines lustrous lucidity with high density. What this means is good writing is packed with hints. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Screenwriting is always about what people say or do, whereas good writing is about a thought process or an abstract image or… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
So far as good writing goes, the use of the exclamation mark is a sign of failure. It is the literary equivalent… — Miles Kington Copy Share Image
Wherein we discover that many of the "rules" for good writing and good sex are the same: Keep your hand moving, lose… — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
Tomorrow may be hell, but today was a good writing day, and on the good writing days nothing else matters. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I want to keep doing different things. I'd like to do a more personal, dramatic movie next, I think. But as long… — Tony Goldwyn Copy Share Image
Beauty and truth may be attributes of good writing, but if the writer deliberately aims at truth, he is likely to find… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
People say I'm not good at writing about men. My dad left when I was 16. Give me a break. I'm doing… — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
I think that's one of the maybe under-discussed aspects of process - the difference between a good writing day and a bad… — George Saunders Copy Share Image