Good writing Quotes

Good writing comes from good talent.

— Leonardo da Vinci

I'm really good at writing 'almost hits'.

— Ben Folds

Im really good at writing almost hits.

— Ben Folds

Good writing is the hardest form of thinking.

— Pat Conroy

All good writing comes out of aloneness.

— Sam Shepard

“Good writing is like porn to me.”

— Kasey Edwards

I'm quite good at not writing.

— Ian Mcewan

I am baffled by good writing.

— Paul Dano

Let us prove to the world that good taste, good art, and good writing can be good selling.

— William Bernbach

“...'good writing' means compelling ideas clothed in words.”

— Betsey Lerner

“The secret to good writing is to use small words for big ideas, not to use big words for small ideas.”

— Oliver Markus

It's easy to write something average or even something good. But writing well is quite challenging.

— Nicholas Sparks

Good writing is good writing, but that doesn't mean you can't orchestrate it or tweak it.

— John Travolta

Just as a good rain clears the air, a good writing day clears the psyche.

— Julia Cameron

Good writing is like a bomb: it explodes in the face of the reader.

— Nuruddin Farah

There's such good writing now on television and I don't see a lot of great writing on films sadly.

— Scott Speedman

A young writer is easily tempted by the allusive and ethereal and ironic and reflective, but the declarative is at the bottom…

— Garrison Keillor

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

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

Writing stopped being fun when I discovered the difference between good writing and bad and, even more terrifying, the difference between it…

— Truman Capote

“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

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

“A writer needs to ingest love to be passionate. Passion is a metabolite of love, and good writing is an active metabolite…

— Roman Payne

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

To write weekly, to write daily, to write shortly, to write for busy people catching trains in the morning or for tired…

— Virginia Woolf

Most good writing is clear, vigorous, honest, alive, sensuous, appropriate, unsentimental, rhythmic, without pretension, fresh, metaphorical, evocative in sound, economical, authoritative, surprising,…

— Ken Macrorie

Well, I've always been a character actor, you know, and you always get your share of character actors who are bad guys.…

— Colm Meaney

Really good writing, from my perspective, runs a lot like a visual on the screen. You need to create that kind of…

— Ann Voskamp

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

Brendan O’Meara’s Six Weeks in Saratoga is a victory to be savored by those who treasure good writing in general and tales…

— Madeleine Blais

The studios don't seem to foster good writing. They're not so interested in that, but they're more interested in what worked most…

— Bill Murray

“We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Good writing starts strong. Not with a cliché (“Since the…

— Anonymous

It's been reinforced to me, and it's a little cliche, but I've learned that you can't make a movie that even works,…

— Ben Affleck

“Almost everyone can remember losing his or her virginity, and most writers can remember the first book he/she walked away from thinking,…

— Stephen King

“Read good writing, and don’t live in the present. Live in the deep past, with the language of the Koran or the…

— Rebecca Solnit

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

“After his initial homecoming week, after he'd been taken to a bunch of sights by his cousins, after he'd gotten somewhat used…

— Junot Díaz

To my mind, nothing is as important as good writing, because in literature, the walls between people and cultures are broken down,…

— Richard Bausch

The written word is weak. Many people prefer life to it. Life gets your blood going, & it smells good. Writing is…

— Annie Dillard

My fellow actors inspire me a lot and really good writing inspires me. And then trying to stick to the decision to…

— Glenn Close