Good writing Quotes · Page 5

Good writing is lean and confident.

— Anonymous

“Good writing is made up of characters who are bigger than their circumstances.”

— Michael Knight

There is no such thing as good writing, only good rewriting.

— Robert Graves

All the elements of good writing depend on the writer's skill in choosing one word instead of another.

— Francine Prose

Nobody sounds good writing about your divorce, let's face it.

— Mary Karr

The good writing of any age has always been the product of someone's neurosis.

— William Styron

An essential element for good writing is a good ear: One must listen to the sound of one's own prose.

— Barbara Tuchman

“...no good writing flows from a polluted well - you can write about monsters, but you can't be one...”

— John Geddes

Good writing excites me, and makes life worth living.

— Harold Pinter

Marc Cherry is so good at writing himself into a corner, then writing himself out of that corner. It's really fun to…

— Grant Show

What's great about good writing is that it feels like life, so it's not hard to relate to her circumstances.

— Carrie Coon

I've hung out in the writer's room a few times, but the fact is we've got such a good writing staff, I…

— Patton Oswalt

Novelists are no more moral or certain than anybody else; we are ideologically adrift, and if we are any good then our…

— Andrew O'Hagan

Good writing is about finding and exploiting anecdotes that resonate with the reader. In storytelling, it's OK if you only make one…

— Ben Clymer

When you've got good writing, you can kind of give up all the research, in a way, and start just following the…

— Linus Roache

Knowledge is the foundation and source of good writing. [Lat., Scibendi recte sapere est et principium et fons.]

— Horace

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

“Write at a pace that doesn't surpass your creative flow. Don't be hasty; don't be sloppy. Don't forfeit impressive writing for an…

— Richelle E. Goodrich

It felt good to be writing in her own room, in her own bed. To get lost in the World of Mages…

— Rainbow Rowell

“Bad writing is more than a matter of shit syntax and faulty observation; bad writing usually arises from a stubborn refusal to…

— Stephen King

Good writing, in my opinion, is writing that looks really easy, so easy that a person who has never written more than…

— Mary J. Miller

Good writing, and this is especially important in a subject such as economics, must also involve the reader in the matter at…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

“Good writing is clear. Talented writing is energetic. Good writing avoids errors. Talented writing makes things happen in the reader’s mind —…

— Samuel R. Delany

It goes without saying that a good Catholic novel should be good craftsmanship, good writing skills. The creative person must always be…

— Michael O'Brien

There are so many burning issues to be dealt with that it's completely understandable and natural that a character is struggling with…

— Colm Meaney

Good writing will bring you to places you don't even expect sometimes.

— James Gandolfini

There are many rules of good writing, but the best way to find them is to be a good reader.

— Stephen Ambrose

Only bad writers think that their work is really good.

— Anne Enright

“Good writing demands self-discipline and constant learning”

— Cecil Murphey

The secret of good writing is to strip every sentence to its cleanest components,

— Anonymous

Good writing is a kind of skating which carries off the performer where he would not go.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Good writers hate bad writing but hating bad writing doesn’t make you good. Writing badly does.

— Dan Harmon

Ready writing makes not good writing, but good writing brings on ready writing.

— Ben Jonson

Good writing is deceptive in that it hides its own artifice - it makes it seem easy.

— Michael Arndt

Tour isn't good for writing, but it's good for inspiration.

— Mitski

I'm not very good at writing fantasy or even reading it.

— Ruskin Bond

Clichés are what good writing is all about. Because our lives are basically clichés.

— Sylvester Stallone

I believe in good writing and I have always had a flair for it.

— Kunal Kapoor

The thing I am attracted to is just good writing and stories that are based somewhat in reality.

— Jennifer Aniston

Agents and publishers only want one thing - good writing.

— Jasper Fforde