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Every page was once a blank page, just as every word that appears on it now was not always there, but instead reflects the final… — Francine Prose
Good writing isn’t a science. It’s an art, and the horizon is infinite. You can always get better. — David Foster Wallace
Good writing ... involves the agony of turning profoundly difficult thoughts into lucid form, then forcing them into the tight-fitting uniform of language, making them… — Pat Conroy
Good writing is the hardest form of thinking. — Pat Conroy
As an actor you get categorized by other people, but it's not like I arrange myself into comedy mode or serious mode. If it's good… — Sophie Thompson
Left to it's own devices, writing is like weather. It has a drama, a form, a force to it that shapes the day. Just as… — Julia Cameron
There is no such thing as good writing, only good rewriting. — Robert Graves
All writing is by the grace of God. People do not deserve to have good writing, they are so pleased with bad. In these sentences… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
You do an awful lot of bad writing in order to do any good writing. Incredibly bad. I think it would be very interesting to… — William S. Burroughs
Good writing, and this is especially important in a subject such as economics, must also involve the reader in the matter at hand. It is… — John Kenneth Galbraith
Writing is not about making a buck, not about publishers and agents. Writing is not about feeling good. Writing is about pain, suffering, hard work,… — Sue Grafton
Somehow, some way, incredibly enough, good writing ultimately gets recognized. If you're a really good writer and deserve that honored position, then by God, you'll… — Rod Serling
Good writing comes from good talent. — Leonardo da Vinci
Good writing is good writing, and I'm so happy when I read it. — Meg Wolitzer
Love is the main generator of all good writing... Love, passion, compassion, are all welded together. — Carson McCullers
Disorganizatio n is the enemy of good writing. — Guy Kawasaki
I think that's one of the maybe under-discussed aspects of process - the difference between a good writing day and a bad one is the… — George Saunders
Good writing is deceptive in that it hides its own artifice - it makes it seem easy. — Michael Arndt
Wherein we discover that many of the "rules" for good writing and good sex are the same: Keep your hand moving, lose control, and don't… — Natalie Goldberg
Don’t say you were a bit confused and sort of tired and a little depressed and somewhat annoyed. Be tired. Be confused. Be depressed. Be… — William Zinsser
There's such good writing now on television and I don't see a lot of great writing on films sadly. — Scott Speedman
The man of understanding can no more sit quiet and resigned while his country lets its literature decay, and lets good writing meet with contempt,… — Ezra Pound
The secret of good writing is to strip every sentence to its cleanest components, — William Zinsser
And when you get an eminent journal like Time magazine complaining, as it often has, that to the young writers of today life seems short… — William Styron
There's a sureness to good writing even when what's being written about doesn't make all that much sense. It's the sureness of the so-called seat… — Anne Bernays

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