“She smiled. "How...cute." She chose the word rather like a candy, which she bit.” — Matthew Skelton Copy Share Image
I never feel more myself than when I’m writing; I never enjoy any day more than a good writing day. — Anthony Minghella Copy Share Image
Get it down. Take chances. It may be bad, but that's the only way you can do anything really good. — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
My writing improved the more I wrote - and the more I read good writing, from Shakespeare on down. — Dick Schaap Copy Share Image
Good writing is formed partly through plan and partly through accident. — Ken Macrorie Copy Share Image
Good writing is full of surprises and novelties, moving in a direction you don't expect. — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
I wouldn't say I have comedy chops. I guess you get lucky with good writing because I don't think I'm a comedian… — Michael Pena Copy Share Image
I wish you good writing and good luck. Even if you've already done the good writing, you'll still need the good luck.… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
All good writing is built one good line at a time. You build a novel the same way you do a pyramid.… — Kate Braverman Copy Share Image
Good writing is good writing no matter what genre you're writing in, and I believe that there are only a handful of… — Georgia Heard Copy Share Image
To me there is no such thing as creative writing. It's either good writing, whatever the subject, or it's not creative. — Erskine Caldwell Copy Share Image
Because good writing in a TV cartoon is so rare, I think the animation on The Simpsons is often overlooked. — Matt Groening Copy Share Image
If the communication is perfect, the words have life, and that is all there is to good writing, putting down on the… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
“Good fiction writers have an instinctive understanding of human nature. That's what makes stories and characters captivating. Good spiritual writers share what… — Donna Goddard Copy Share Image
Almost all good writing begins with terrible first efforts. You need to start somewhere. Start by getting something—anything—down on paper. What I’ve… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“.. they look like they've escaped from a nursing home. Everywhere I turn I see puffy skin & radiant expressions, crinkles &… — Tim Latham Copy Share Image
You can make bad writing 'OK,' but... you really need to start with a good script and with characters that are three-dimensional… — Corey Stoll Copy Share Image
In an age of malice and bad faith on many sides, I reread White or Thurber or Mitchell and am reminded again… — Adam Gopnik Copy Share Image
Sometimes with certain writing, you feel like you've got to be literal, hit it hard on the nose, just to get the… — Chace Crawford Copy Share Image
There is a lot of catarsis that passes itself off as art or comedy and I'm kind of critical of that. I… — Mindy Kaling Copy Share Image
The writer trusts nothing she writes-it should be too reckless and alive for that, it should be beautiful and menacing and slightly… — Joy Williams Copy Share Image
All I've tried to do as an actor is follow the good writing. That's been my main drive. It's not always possible,… — Cillian Murphy Copy Share Image
Good writing of course requires talent, and no one can teach you to have talent. — Peter Carey Copy Share Image
I subscribe to about 200 blogs. I look for insights and good writing, and I look to get smarter. — Evan Williams Copy Share Image
Almost all good writing begins with terrible first efforts. You need to start somewhere. — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
The secret of good writing is to say an old thing in a new way or to say a new thing in… — Richard Harding Davis Copy Share Image
Good writing isn’t a science. It’s an art, and the horizon is infinite. You can always get better. — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
When people say to me, 'Why are you so good at writing at women?' I say, 'Why isn't everybody?' — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
My gratitude for good writing is unbounded; I’m grateful for it the way I’m grateful for the ocean. — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
My preference is for really good writing, and I just really don't care where it is. — Carol Kane Copy Share Image
I am always writing. It is not always good, but if I am writing, I am usually happy. — Matthew Nable Copy Share Image
I think that's what good writing is all about. You go into a genre to talk about other things. Tolkein created a… — Joe Morton Copy Share Image
“…After all, it isn't really difficult to write books. Especially if you either write a rotten story in good English or a… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
I'm very driven by writing. Coming from 'Saturday Night Live,' because it's such a writing job, and we all write our parts… — Molly Shannon Copy Share Image
As an actor, you are in a unique position because you're not only memorizing dialogue but really embodying it. You naturally feel… — Jesse Eisenberg Copy Share Image
I'm not happy that death is approaching because I like being alive but I'm glad I've escaped the two-post-a-day economy of contemporary… — Robert Christgau Copy Share Image
Good writing never soothes or comforts. It is no prescription, neither is it diversionary, although it can and should enchant while it… — Joy Williams Copy Share Image
