“A writer needs to ingest love to be passionate. Passion is a metabolite of love, and good writing is an active metabolite… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
A young writer is easily tempted by the allusive and ethereal and ironic and reflective, but the declarative is at the bottom… — Garrison Keillor 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
I suppose with any good writing and interesting characters, you can have that awfully overused word: a journey. — Alan Rickman 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 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
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
I think the benefit of being a writer is that I'm looking for the subtext on the page, because all good writing… — Richard Dormer Copy Share Image
“The young man or woman writing today has forgotten the problems of the human heart in conflict with itself which alone can… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Left to it's own devices, writing is like weather. It has a drama, a form, a force to it that shapes the… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
Sometime really good writing does you a disservice as an actor. Because you can get lazy. It's doing a lot of the… — Meryl Streep Copy Share Image
Most of my stuff is just a series of false leads. I'll approach a story as a subject and then make a… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
Perhaps that is nearly the perfection of good writing which is original, but whose truth alone prevents the reader from suspecting that… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
My preference is for good writing. It doesn't matter if it's for film or TV. Whatever. It starts with the writing. Even… — James Nesbitt Copy Share Image
I started writing while I was a little boy. Maybe it's because I was reading a lot of books I admired, and… — Naguib Mahfouz 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
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 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
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
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 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
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
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
“…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 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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Knowledge is the foundation and source of good writing. [Lat., Scibendi recte sapere est et principium et fons.] — Horace Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Inspiration comes from so many sources. Music, other fiction, the non-fiction I read, TV shows, films, news reports, people I know, stories… — Trudi Canavan Copy Share Image
As an actor you get categorized by other people, but it's not like I arrange myself into comedy mode or serious mode.… — Sophie Thompson Copy Share Image
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