the problems of the human heart in conflict with itself which alone can make good writing because only that is worth writing… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“The written word is weak. Many people prefer life to it. Life gets your blood going, and it smells good. Writing is… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
Some of my favorite movies are action movies. You want something good to say. That comes from good writing. But writing is… — Jason Statham 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
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
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
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
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
“...Mr. Wegg sits down on a box in front of the fire, and inhales a warm and comfortable smell which is not… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I'm not a chef. I haven't created any new technique in the kitchen. I'm not a rocket scientist. I think I'm good… — Rachael Ray Copy Share Image
I'm attracted to good writing. When I read the page and I know what we're after and where we're headed, and I'm… — Dallas Roberts Copy Share Image
The way the show was conceived originally and developed, has always had good writing at the heart of it, it's very difficult… — Denis Lawson Copy Share Image
The good part of writing is where it gets out of your control and turns into something else. You look at it… — Richard Thompson Copy Share Image
Of course, the fact that Dostoevsky can tell a juicy story isn't enough to make him great. If it were, Judith Krantz… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“There are three elements of good writing: Effect, Eloquence, and Affect. One because economic use of words makes reading easy, another because… — Stephen Hagelin Copy Share Image
I would have done anything. I just really love the Duplass brothers. I was at a place where I was desperate for… — Amanda Peet 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 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
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
“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
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
“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
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
The best way to become a successful writer is to read good writing, remember it, and then forget where you remember it… — Gene Fowler Copy Share Image
Screenwriting is always about what people say or do, whereas good writing is about a thought process or an abstract image or… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
So far as good writing goes, the use of the exclamation mark is a sign of failure. It is the literary equivalent… — Miles Kington Copy Share Image
Good writing is often about trying to investigate something you feel is missing and trying to put it back. — Abi Morgan 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
I've grown more and more appreciative of good writing, and I now really hope I can become a better and better writer. — James Lapine Copy Share Image
Good writing , like gold , combines lustrous lucidity with high density. What this means is good writing is packed with hints. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
The chief difference between good writing and better writing may be measured by the number of imperceptible hesitations the reader experiences as… — James J. Kilpatrick Copy Share Image
I think that's one of the maybe under-discussed aspects of process - the difference between a good writing day and a bad… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
Beauty and truth may be attributes of good writing, but if the writer deliberately aims at truth, he is likely to find… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
Tomorrow may be hell, but today was a good writing day, and on the good writing days nothing else matters. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I want to keep doing different things. I'd like to do a more personal, dramatic movie next, I think. But as long… — Tony Goldwyn Copy Share Image
People say I'm not good at writing about men. My dad left when I was 16. Give me a break. I'm doing… — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
It was a dark and stormy night. Suddenly a scream pierced the air'. . . . Good writing takes enormous concentration. — Charles M. Schulz Copy Share Image
“To have touched the feet of Christ is no excuse for mistakes in punctuation. If a man writes well only when he's… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
The man of understanding can no more sit quiet and resigned while his country lets its literature decay, and lets good writing… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
