It's easy to write something average or even something good. But writing well is quite challenging. — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
“...no good writing flows from a polluted well - you can write about monsters, but you can't be one...” — John Geddes Copy Share Image
All the elements of good writing depend on the writer's skill in choosing one word instead of another. — Francine Prose Copy Share Image
An essential element for good writing is a good ear: One must listen to the sound of one's own prose. — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
The good writing of any age has always been the product of someone's neurosis. — William Styron Copy Share Image
You have to be an extremely good reader to appreciate what a good writer is. There are some people who are completely… — Robert Caro Copy Share Image
Wherein we discover that many of the "rules" for good writing and good sex are the same: Keep your hand moving, lose… — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
“Good writing is like music. It has its distinctive rhythm, its pace, flow, cadence. It can be hummed. The great stylists seem… — Leonard Ray Teel Copy Share Image
Avoid theatrical flourishes - the phrases that sound so damned good that they stand up and beg to be recognized as "good… — Donald Spoto Copy Share Image
Good writing is remembering detail. Most people want to forget. Don't forget things that were painful or embarrassing or silly. Turn them… — Paula Danziger Copy Share Image
It may be observed of good writing, as of good blood, that it is much easier to say what it is composed… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Good writing shouldn't be wrapped in cellophane. It should be open to the elements and full of maggots and it should be… — Zawe Ashton Copy Share Image
“What needs to be reinforced is the idea that good writing - solid, honest, entertaining, beautiful good writing - is simultaneously the… — Tom Bissell Copy Share Image
If a man means his writing seriously, he must mean to write well. But how can he write well until he learns… — John Ciardi Copy Share Image
“Really good writing has purpose and that purpose should be to shape other minds to desire truth and a more noble purpose… — Susan Waterfield Copy Share Image
“... a slipstream of darkness so complete it helps illuminate the evening sky. It's like somebody dropped a dome over the ocean… — Tim Latham Copy Share Image
Writing, or at least good writing, is an outgrowth of that urge to use language to communicate complex ideas and experiences between… — John Green Copy Share Image
I would rather not write if I'm depressed, or am going through a breakup, or I've had some disappointment, or I'm having… — Mandy Stadtmiller Copy Share Image
read widely, not in order to copy someone else's style, but to learn to appreciate and recognize good writing and to see… — P. D. James Copy Share Image
I always tell my writing students that every good piece of writing begins with both a mystery and a love story. And… — Silas House Copy Share Image
Part of what makes for good writing is an ear for what we would call the poetical. Poetry itself is another thing… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
“There is really only one way to learn good writing: good reading and extensive writing and revising.” — Robert Lane Greene Copy Share Image
As an actor, my main focus is finding good writing and attacking a good role. — Amanda Peet Copy Share Image
“Good writing is made up of characters who are bigger than their circumstances.” — Michael Knight Copy Share Image
“All good writing is like swimming underwater and holding your breath.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Through an arbitrary problem, I had arrived at a tenet of good writing: brevity wins. — Michael Winter Copy Share Image
I always had a thing for writing. Even when I was in school, I was always good at writing. — Jay IDK Copy Share Image
I think all good writing is a struggle. To write as well as you feel you can has to be a struggle,… — Jane Asher Copy Share Image
All I want is a modest place in Mr X's Good Reading, Miss Y's Good Writing, and that new edition of One… — James Agate Copy Share Image
With fiction, it could be about anything. It just has to be good writing, like Maria Semple's "Where'd You Go, Bernadette," which… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
You just can't make bad writing look good. But if you have good writing, you just say it, and it's almost done. — Carol Kane Copy Share Image
A sustained engagement with the world, a sense of how it was and how it ought to be, and what has been… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
