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As an actor, I go where the good writing is. That's the bottom line. — Glenn Close
I wish you good writing and good luck. Even if you've already done the good writing, you'll still need the good luck. It's a shark-filled… — Margaret Atwood
Good storytelling appeals to me - good writing. — Sanaa Lathan
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
All good writing leaves something unexpressed. — Christian Nestell Bovee
Good writing is almost the concomitant of good history. Literature and history were joined long since by the powers which shaped the human brain; we… — C. V. Wedgwood
Good writing of course requires talent, and no one can teach you to have talent. — Peter Carey
I think the thing that has made it possible for me to write personal songs and sing them year after year is the sensibility for… — Shawn Colvin
Every actor just wants good writing. — Jeff Daniels
Give me good writing, and I'll play it all day. — Jeff Daniels
No blur of inexactness, no cloud of vagueness, is allowable in good writing; from the first seeing to the last putting down, there must be… — Eudora Welty
If we marvel at the artist who has written a great book, we must marvel more at those people whose lives are works of art… — Katherine Paterson
My writing improved the more I wrote - and the more I read good writing, from Shakespeare on down. — Dick Schaap
Rewrite and revise. Do not be afraid to seize what you have and cut it to ribbons ... Good writing means good revising. — William Strunk, Jr.
But the thing that stands eternally in the way of really good writing is always one: the virtual impossibility of lifting to the imagination those… — William Carlos Williams
All I want is a modest place in Mr X's Good Reading, Miss Y's Good Writing, and that new edition of One Thousand Best Bits… — James Agate
Beauty and truth may be attributes of good writing, but if the writer deliberately aims at truth, he is likely to find that what he… — Northrop Frye
Most of my stuff is just a series of false leads. I'll approach a story as a subject and then make a whole bunch of… — Hunter S. Thompson
Ready writing makes not good writing, but good writing brings on ready writing. — Ben Jonson
Always care for the writing part first. Every good film project starts with good writing. If you have a good script, everything else follows. Writing… — Giovanna Cau
Good writing will bring you to places you don't even expect sometimes. — James Gandolfini
Because good writing in a TV cartoon is so rare, I think the animation on The Simpsons is often overlooked. — Matt Groening
Good writing is supposed to evoke sensation in the reader - not the fact that it is raining, but the feeling of being rained upon. — E L Doctorow
As an actor, you are in a unique position because you're not only memorizing dialogue but really embodying it. You naturally feel the rhythm of… — Jesse Eisenberg
All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath. — F. Scott Fitzgerald

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