Good writing Quotes · Page 4

Good writing is everything.

— Corey Stoll

“I wasn't good at saying. I was good at writing.”

— Tarryn Fisher

The secret of all good writing is sound judgment.

— Horace

The secret of good writing is telling the truth.

— Gordon Lish

All good writing leaves something unexpressed.

— Christian Nestell Bovee

In good writing, words become one with things.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Good writing gives energy, whatever it is about.

— Marilyn Hacker

Good storytelling appeals to me - good writing.

— Sanaa Lathan

There is no good writing; there is only good rewriting.

— Louis D. Brandeis

“Good writing is often about letting go of fear and affectation.”

— Stephen King

Like with anything, good writing suggest itself pretty strongly.

— Martin Freeman

Through an arbitrary problem, I had arrived at a tenet of good writing: brevity wins.

— Michael Winter

“All good writing is like swimming underwater and holding your breath.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

As an actor, my main focus is finding good writing and attacking a good role.

— Amanda Peet

“There is really only one way to learn good writing: good reading and extensive writing and revising.”

— Robert Lane Greene

Good writing is good writing, and I'm so happy when I read it.

— Meg Wolitzer

I suppose with any good writing and interesting characters, you can have that awfully overused word [...] - a jouuuuuurney.

— Alan Rickman

Good writing takes place at intersections, at what you might call knots, at places where the society is snarled or knotted up.

— Margaret Atwood

I would say that I am proud of my performance from Cracker and I think a lot of that was due to…

— Boti Bliss

There is more good writing and good acting in any ten minutes of Twister than in, say, all of Citizen Kane.

— Orson Scott Card

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

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

When you have good writing, the rhythm of the scene is very apparent. What the scene demands is very clear.

— Carrie Coon

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

“He wrote as if he were the reader. It was also how he kept his writing from becoming too cute, which is…

— Richard Castle

Good writing is writing and rewriting and rewriting and rewriting. Sometimes, it happens to work right away, and that's amazing. But most…

— Kate Beaton

There's a sureness to good writing even when what's being written about doesn't make all that much sense. It's the sureness of…

— Anne Bernays

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

A couple of pieces of advice for the kids who are serious about writing are: first of all, to read everything you…

— Ann M. Martin

I don't know why he [Darren Star] is so good at writing for women. Maybe he just likes women. I'm not quite…

— Sutton Foster

“In truly good writing no matter how many times you read it you do not know how it is done. That is…

— Ernest Hemingway

And the writers are good in that it's easy to memorize, and good writing has an innate rhythm to it. And I've…

— Glenn Close

“The writer doesn’t need economic freedom. All he needs is a pencil and some paper. I’ve never known anything good in writing…

— William Faulkner

Distinguish between the work and the job title. When I was leaving school in the early 1970s, many people wanted to be…

— Howard Gardner

Our tragedy today is a general and universal physical fear so long sustained by now that we can even bear it. There…

— William Faulkner

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

Every actor just wants good writing.

— Jeff Daniels

I believe good writing can save bad art.

— Ryan North

Most things good for writing are bad for life.

— Lorrie Moore

“Good writing is where precision meets passion.”

— Nancy Rue