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Good writing gives energy, whatever it is about. — Marilyn Hacker
Most of my work consisted of crossing out. Crossing out was the secret of all good writing. — Mark Haddon
Nobody sounds good writing about your divorce, let's face it. — Mary Karr
I believe that writing is derivative. I think good writing comes from good reading. — Charles Kuralt
You can have good writing, but a great actor will make it feel and sound like great writing. You can have great writing, and mediocre… — Denis Leary
I started writing while I was a little boy. Maybe it's because I was reading a lot of books I admired, and thought that I… — Naguib Mahfouz
The studios don't seem to foster good writing. They're not so interested in that, but they're more interested in what worked most recently. They're definitely… — Bill Murray
Good writing is like a windowpane. — George Orwell
I've hung out in the writer's room a few times, but the fact is we've got such a good writing staff, I don't want to… — Patton Oswalt
As an actor, my main focus is finding good writing and attacking a good role. — Amanda Peet
Good writing excites me, and makes life worth living. — Harold Pinter
I suppose with any good writing and interesting characters, you can have that awfully overused word: a journey. — Alan Rickman
The most important thing is to read as much as you can, like I did. It will give you an understanding of what makes good… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Write for yourself, not for a perceived audience. If you do, you'll mostly fall flat on your face, because it's impossible to judge what people… — Wilbur Smith
Good writing is good writing, but that doesn't mean you can't orchestrate it or tweak it. — John Travolta
A young writer is easily tempted by the allusive and ethereal and ironic and reflective, but the declarative is at the bottom of most good… — Garrison Keillor
People do not deserve good writing, they are so pleased with bad. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Almost all good writing begins with terrible first efforts. You need to start somewhere. — Anne Lamott
the problems of the human heart in conflict with itself which alone can make good writing because only that is worth writing about, worth the… — William Faulkner
Good writing works from a simple premise: your experience is not yours alone, but in some sense a metaphor for everyone's. — Dorianne Laux
My gratitude for good writing is unbounded; I’m grateful for it the way I’m grateful for the ocean. — Anne Lamott
I Need a Good Book I need a good story. I need a good book. The kind that explodes Off the shelf. I need some… — John Lithgow
The very first thing I tell my new students on the first day of a workshop is that good writing is about telling the truth.… — Anne Lamott
The good writing of any age has always been the product of someone's neurosis, and we'd have a mighty dull literature if all the writers… — William Styron
To present a whole world that doesn’t exist and make it seem real, we have to more or less pretend we’re polymaths. That’s just the… — William Gibson

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