Good Writing Quotes
151 quotes by 124 authors
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I had the most incredible English and literature teachers in school, and it really influenced my love of storytelling. It's what made me excited to…
— Sophia Bush
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Writing stopped being fun when I discovered the difference between good writing and bad and, even more terrifying, the difference between it and true art.…
— Truman Capote
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There is more good writing and good acting in any ten minutes of Twister than in, say, all of Citizen Kane.
— Orson Scott Card
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The thing I am attracted to is just good writing and stories that are based somewhat in reality.
— Jennifer Aniston
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The secret of good writing is to say an old thing in a new way or to say a new thing in an old way.
— Richard Harding Davis
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The secret of all good writing is sound judgment.
— Horace
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An essential element for good writing is a good ear: One must listen to the sound of one's own prose.
— Barbara Tuchman
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There is no satisfactory explanation of style, no infallible guide to good writing, no assurance that a person who thinks clearly will be able to…
— Elwyn Brooks White
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Writing, or at least good writing, is an outgrowth of that urge to use language to communicate complex ideas and experiences between people. And that's…
— John Green
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Write about what you know and care deeply about. When one puts one's self on paper - that is what is called good writing.
— Joel Chandler Harris
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The good writing of any age has always been the product of someone's neurosis.
— William Styron
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Of course, the fact that Dostoevsky can tell a juicy story isn't enough to make him great. If it were, Judith Krantz and John Grisham…
— David Foster Wallace
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Only bad writers think that their work is really good.
— Anne Enright
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Good writing is a kind of skating which carries off the performer where he would not go.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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It takes a lot of bad writing to get to a little good writing.
— Truman Capote
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Good writing is rewriting.
— Truman Capote
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Good writing is essentially rewriting.
— Roald Dahl
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In good writing, words become one with things.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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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
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The chief difference between good writing and better writing may be measured by the number of imperceptible hesitations the reader experiences as he goes along.
— James J. Kilpatrick
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