“There is only one secret to great writing and that's great writing.” — Chloe Thurlow Copy Share Image
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Great writing attracts great actors. It attracts money. Without a great script, you have nothing. — Andy Garcia Copy Share Image
“... and Louisa watched another car arriving, this one as unmarked as the cop cars, but more so.” — Mick Herron Copy Share Image
There is a mystery in all great writing and that mystery does not dissect out. It continues and is always valid. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Keep a small can of WD-40 on your desk-away from any open flames-to remind yourself that if you don't write daily, you… — George Singleton Copy Share Image
It's just lovely to be involved in a movie that does go back to the basics - characters and great writing. — Clive Owen Copy Share Image
“...the grocery store poets do everything they can to encourage us in our willing suspension of disbelief.” — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
I just like to go where the material is, whether that's TV, or movies, or the stage. As long as it's great… — Sarah Shahi Copy Share Image
[George] Orwell's essays. It's got it all. Great writing, a worldview that I find interesting and useful, and most of it timelessly… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
Read over your compositions and whenever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“Damn, Easy,” the intrepid sideman said. “Trouble got your name tattooed on the inside’a his eyelids. He be studyin’ you in his… — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
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I try to write in a way where you care deeply what the next paragraph will be. I hear the rhythm of… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Nothing teaches great writing like the very best books do. Yet, good teachers often help students cross that bridge, and I have… — Julia Glass Copy Share Image
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There are books full of great writing that don't have very good stories. Read sometimes for the story... don't be like the… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
There's so many amazing articles coming out all the time and because of the internet circulating great writing - even if the… — Bonnie Raitt Copy Share Image
Don't look back until you've written an entire draft, just begin each day from the last sentence you wrote the preceeding day.… — Will Self Copy Share Image
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I write less about alcohol, less and less and less. You 're an addict - so of course you write about the… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
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Great is the art of beginning, but greater is the art of ending. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
Write freely and as rapidly as possible and throw the whole thing on paper. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
It's hard to imagine there's a place for great writing inside a multinational conglomerate. — Matthew Specktor Copy Share Image
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Let the world burn through you. Throw the prism light, white hot, on paper. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
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