Bad writing is not easier than good writing. It's just as hard to make a toilet seat as it is a castle… — Ben Hecht Copy Share Image
Writing is not about making a buck, not about publishers and agents. Writing is not about feeling good. Writing is about pain,… — Sue Grafton Copy Share Image
Good writing is really meaningful, and it's one of the - it's still one of the best tools we have to get… — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
There is no royal path to good writing; and such paths as exist do not lead through neat critical gardens, various as… — Jessamyn West Copy Share Image
Everyone says TV's going down the tubes, and it's all reality, but there's some really good writing and some amazing opportunities if… — Lindsay Price Copy Share Image
I suppose with any good writing and interesting characters, you can have that awfully overused word: a journey. — Alan Rickman Copy Share Image
It gives me great pleasure, a good name. I always in writing start with a name. Give me a name and it… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
Good writing can be defined as having something to say and saying it well. When one has nothing to say, one should… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
There is no satisfactory explanation of style, no infallible guide to good writing, no assurance that a person who thinks clearly will… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
I don't think I will ever write about politics or foreign policy. I feel like there is so much good writing in… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
“It was Owen Meany who taught me that any good book is always in motion—from the general to the specific, from the… — John Irving Copy Share Image
Hypertext makes a virtue out of lack of organization, allowing ideas and thoughts to be juxtaposed at will. [...] The advent of… — Donald A. Norman Copy Share Image
Don't hedge your prose with little timidities. Good writing is lean and confident. . . . Every little qualifier whittles away some… — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
The very first thing I tell my new students on the first day of a workshop is that good writing is about… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I just hope that readers and publishers continue to appreciate good writing and good storytelling in all their various forms. And I… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
“It felt good to be writing in her own room, in her own bed. To get lost in the World of Mages… — Rainbow Rowell Copy Share Image
What's good about writing is that when you write novels or fiction, people can see that the problems in one region are… — Ngugi wa Thiong'o Copy Share Image
The good writing of any age has always been the product of someone's neurosis, and we'd have a mighty dull literature if… — William Styron Copy Share Image
Good writing is often about letting go of fear and affectation. Affectation itself, beginning with the need to define some sorts of… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I guess it's a bit cliché, but as an actor, I really admire good writing. There are a lot of great ideas… — Mike Colter Copy Share Image
Good writing works from a simple premise: your experience is not yours alone, but in some sense a metaphor for everyone's. — Dorianne Laux Copy Share Image
Good writing is clear. Talented writing is energetic. Good writing avoids errors. Talented writing makes things happen in the reader's mind---vividly, forcefully... — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
I have a very healthy appetite for good writing and good characters. Having weak writing is my biggest fear. — Michael K. Williams Copy Share Image
I love True Blood and Buffy, and, obviously, this is one of my favorite jobs that I've ever had - but not… — Alexandra Breckenridge Copy Share Image
Anecdotes don't make good stories. Generally I dig down underneath them so far that the story that finally comes out is not… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
Somehow, some way, incredibly enough, good writing ultimately gets recognized. If you're a really good writer and deserve that honored position, then… — Rod Serling Copy Share Image
You can have good writing, but a great actor will make it feel and sound like great writing. You can have great… — Denis Leary Copy Share Image
My only close-to-game-plan is to follow good writing. If the writing is in TV or if it's in theater or in film,… — Adam Driver Copy Share Image
You do an awful lot of bad writing in order to do any good writing. Incredibly bad. I think it would be… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
I never read prefaces, and it is not much good writing things just for people to skip. I wonder other authors have… — E. Nesbit Copy Share Image
No blur of inexactness, no cloud of vagueness, is allowable in good writing; from the first seeing to the last putting down,… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
There's not a conspiracy to prevent really good writing from being found You have to have the humility to fail over and… — Ray McKinnon Copy Share Image
I'm so respectful of good writing. It's the blueprint for the movie. You have to have that script there because, if you… — Molly Shannon Copy Share Image
If you don't allow yourself the possibility of writing something very, very bad, it would be hard to write something very good. — Steven Galloway Copy Share Image
Always care for the writing part first. Every good film project starts with good writing. If you have a good script, everything… — Giovanna Cau Copy Share Image
Good writing ... involves the agony of turning profoundly difficult thoughts into lucid form, then forcing them into the tight-fitting uniform of… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
Writing can come naturally to some. Still, when it comes to good writing, this is true: Easy reading is damn hard writing. — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
I'm more interested in the writing than in the content per se (good writing can be about wallpaper and I'll devour it). — Katy Lederer Copy Share Image
The most important thing is to read as much as you can, like I did. It will give you an understanding of… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
Write about what you know and care deeply about. When one puts one's self on paper - that is what is called… — Joel Chandler Harris Copy Share Image
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