“Don't write 40k if the same story can be told in 10k words.” — Oliver Markus Malloy Copy Share Image
Love is the main generator of all good writing... Love, passion, compassion, are all welded together. — Carson McCullers Copy Share Image
People do not deserve good writing, they are so pleased with bad. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Good sense is both the first principal and the parent source of good writing. — Horace Copy Share Image
“The secret of good writing is to say an old thing in a new way or a new thing in an old… — Richard Harding Davis Copy Share Image
I don't think you get to good writing unless you expose yourself and your feelings. — Judy Collins 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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
Sometime really good writing does you a disservice as an actor. Because you can get lazy. It's doing a lot of the… — Meryl Streep Copy Share Image
It's okay to disagree with the thoughts or opinions expressed by other people. That doesn't give you the right to deny any… — Ashly Lorenzana Copy Share Image
And when you get an eminent journal like Time magazine complaining, as it often has, that to the young writers of today… — William Styron Copy Share Image
“Good writing, on the other hand, teaches the learning writer about style, graceful narration, plot development, the creation of believable characters, and… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
But the thing that stands eternally in the way of really good writing is always one: the virtual impossibility of lifting to… — William Carlos Williams Copy Share Image
I don't want to speak too disparagingly of my generation (actually I do, we had a chance to change the world and… — Stephen King 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
“But the secret of good writing is to strip every sentence to its cleanest components. Every words that serves no function, every… — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
“I’ve gotten convinced that there’s something kind of timelessly vital and sacred about good writing. This thing doesn’t have that much to… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
