Good writing Quotes · Page 5

Good writing is like a windowpane.

— George Orwell

My writing improved the more I wrote - and the more I read good writing, from Shakespeare on down.

— Dick Schaap

“Half of good writing is having something interesting to say. The other half is saying it well.”

— Walter Kim

I believe that writing is derivative. I think good writing comes from good reading.

— Charles Kuralt

Most of my work consisted of crossing out. Crossing out was the secret of all good writing.

— Mark Haddon

Good writing is difficult no matter what the reader's age-and children deserve the best.

— Aaron Shepard

People do not deserve to have good writing, they are so pleased with bad.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The p'int of good writing is to know when to stop.”

— L.M. Montgomery

“The key to good writing is to leave Boo Radley in the house until the end of the story.”

— Michael P. Naughton

Beauty and truth may be attributes of good writing, but if the writer deliberately aims at truth, he is likely to find…

— Northrop Frye

The chief difference between good writing and better writing may be measured by the number of imperceptible hesitations the reader experiences as…

— James J. Kilpatrick

Good writing is often about trying to investigate something you feel is missing and trying to put it back.

— Abi Morgan

So far as good writing goes, the use of the exclamation mark is a sign of failure. It is the literary equivalent…

— Miles Kington

Screenwriting is always about what people say or do, whereas good writing is about a thought process or an abstract image or…

— David Nicholls

The best way to become a successful writer is to read good writing, remember it, and then forget where you remember it…

— Gene Fowler

Good writing , like gold , combines lustrous lucidity with high density. What this means is good writing is packed with hints.

— Eric Hoffer

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

Every page was once a blank page, just as every word that appears on it now was not always there, but instead…

— Francine Prose

You have to read a lot so you know what good writing looks like and you get inspired. You have to write…

— Rick Riordan

Good writing and dark wit always excite me and they come together thrillingly in this book. It has a quiet grip on…

— Jenny Diski

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

Good writing does not succeed or fail on the strength of its ability to persuade. It succeeds or fails on the strength…

— Malcolm Gladwell

“Good writing does not succeed or fail on the strength of its ability to persuade...It succeeds or fails on the strength of…

— Malcolm Gladwell

“Good writing is the hardest form of thinking. It involves the agony of turning profoundly difficult thoughts into lucid form, then forcing…

— Pat Conroy

Write for yourself, not for a perceived audience. If you do, you'll mostly fall flat on your face, because it's impossible to…

— Wilbur Smith

I don't think you get to good writing unless you expose yourself and your feelings.

— Judy Collins

“I've always felt that good writing does not have to be literary.”

— Sara Sheridan

Good sense is both the first principal and the parent source of good writing.

— Horace

As an actor, I go where the good writing is. That's the bottom line.

— Glenn Close

“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

People do not deserve good writing, they are so pleased with bad.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Love is the main generator of all good writing... Love, passion, compassion, are all welded together.

— Carson McCullers

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

— Scott Speedman

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

— Nuruddin Farah

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

— Julia Cameron

“Don't write 40k if the same story can be told in 10k words.”

— Oliver Markus Malloy

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

— Oliver Markus

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

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

— John Travolta