When writing is good, everything is symbolic, but symbolic writing is seldom good. — Wright Morris Copy Share Image
There is no left and right in writing. There is only good and bad writing. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Writing is good, thinking is better. Cleverness is good, patience is better. — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Writing a song is actually quite easy. Writing a good one is very, very difficult. — Joe Elliott Copy Share Image
It's a lot easier to act when the writing is good. Nothing is more frustrating than trying to figure out 'Well, why… — Anna Kendrick Copy Share Image
“There is really only one way to learn good writing: good reading and extensive writing and revising.” — Robert Lane Greene Copy Share Image
Writing at home and then going out into the world to talk about why books matter to me feeds the writing. It's… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
The real geniuses know where their writing has to be good and where they can get away with some mediocrity. — Dmitri Shostakovich Copy Share Image
Write regularly, whether you feel like writing or not, and whether you think what you're writing is any good or not. — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
An essential element for good writing is a good ear: One must listen to the sound of one's own prose. — Barbara Tuchman 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 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
Whatever I'm doing, I try to write well. I try to give the reader a nice, clean well-written surface, where the writing… — Shelby Steele Copy Share Image
“I am aware of many things being quite as important as good writing and good reading; but in all things it is… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“I think you can read a dozen different books and not learn a single thing about writing. Good writers don't read, they… — Joe Bunting Copy Share Image
“Isn't the writing of good prose an emotional excitement?" "Yes, of course it is. At least, when you get the thing dead… — Dorothy Sayers Copy Share Image
we should write because writing brings clarity and passion to the act of living. writing is sensual, experiential, grounding. we should write… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
I don't believe in writer's block. There are good days when you're writing and less good days. I've learned that if it's… — Judy Blume Copy Share Image
Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than a great author. There are but two… — Ross Perot Copy Share Image
If your writing is good, if it resonates, if it connects the dots for anybody out there, the lovers will come, the… — Amanda Palmer Copy Share Image
“One ought not to fall in love with someone by way of their writing. One must be especially careful if the writing… — Jane Juska Copy Share Image
I believe that any form of writing exercise is good for you. I also believe that any form of tuition which helps… — David Crystal Copy Share Image
“There's one thing your writing must have to be any good at all. It must have you. Your soul, your self, your… — Elizabeth Ayres Copy Share Image
“GENERAL NOTE TO MYSELF - Douglas Adams Writing isn’t so bad really when you get through the worry. Forget about the worry,… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
When I'm writing, it's about the page. It's not about the movie. It's not about cinema. It's about the literature of me… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
“You're guaranteed to be lucky several times in your life-it's what you do with it. Young writers spend all their time worrying,… — Steven Moffat Copy Share Image
“So I am led to one or two choices! Can I write? Will I write if I practice enough? How much should… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
“I taught how to be sociable with ink on paper. I told my students that when they were writing they should be… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Good writing is good writing, but that doesn't mean you can't orchestrate it or tweak it. — John Travolta Copy Share Image
If the writing is good, I'm there. If it's something I've never done before, I'm up for that, too. — W. Earl Brown Copy Share Image
