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
I suppose with any good writing and interesting characters, you can have that awfully overused word [...] - a jouuuuuurney. — Alan Rickman Copy Share Image
When you recognize good writing and you're lucky enough to get it, like with Lost, that's what I follow. — Nestor Carbonell Copy Share Image
Let us prove to the world that good taste, good art, and good writing can be good selling. — William Bernbach Copy Share Image
Comedy is more difficult than drama. I think it's really difficult to make someone laugh because people have very different comedic sensibilities.… — Aimee Garcia Copy Share Image
I believe that writing is derivative. I think good writing comes from good reading. — Charles Kuralt Copy Share Image
Nothing frustrates me more than someone who reads something of mine or anyone else's and says, angrily, 'I don't buy it.' Why… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
Good writing can be defined as having something to say and saying it well. When one has nothing to say, one should… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Good writing is full of surprises and novelties, moving in a direction you don't expect. — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
I don't think you get to good writing unless you expose yourself and your feelings. Deep songs don't come from the surface;… — Judy Collins Copy Share Image
I never read prefaces, and it is not much good writing things just for people to skip. I wonder other authors have… — E. Nesbit Copy Share Image
There is no satisfactory explanation of style, no infallible guide to good writing, no assurance that a person who thinks clearly will… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
There's such good writing now on television and I don't see a lot of great writing on films sadly. — Scott Speedman Copy Share Image
These days, most of my interactions with young people are centered on the poetry or theater classes I teach, so the students… — Renee Watson Copy Share Image
If you don't allow yourself the possibility of writing something very, very bad, it would be hard to write something very good. — Steven Galloway Copy Share Image
“... a slipstream of darkness so complete it helps illuminate the evening sky. It's like somebody dropped a dome over the ocean… — Tim Latham Copy Share Image
Bad writing is not easier than good writing. It's just as hard to make a toilet seat as it is a castle… — Ben Hecht Copy Share Image
Knowledge is the foundation and source of good writing. [Lat., Scibendi recte sapere est et principium et fons.] — Horace Copy Share Image
With fiction, it could be about anything. It just has to be good writing, like Maria Semple's "Where'd You Go, Bernadette," which… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
Ready writing makes not good writing, but good writing brings on ready writing. — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
Left to it's own devices, writing is like weather. It has a drama, a form, a force to it that shapes the… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
I think that good writing is based on good reading. Maybe it's not about writing today, maybe it's about reading today. Maybe… — Saul Williams Copy Share Image
