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Good writing is clear. Talented writing is energetic. Good writing avoids errors. Talented writing makes things happen in the reader's mind---vividly, forcefully... — Samuel R. Delany
Good writing is good conversation, only more so. — Ernest Hemingway
Good writing takes place at intersections, at what you might call knots, at places where the society is snarled or knotted up. — Margaret Atwood
Good writing does not succeed or fail on the strength of its ability to persuade. It succeeds or fails on the strength of its ability… — Malcolm Gladwell
Good writing is good writing. In many ways, it’s the audience and their expectations that define a genre. A reader of literary fiction expects the… — Rosemary Clement-Moore
Just as a good rain clears the air, a good writing day clears the psyche. — Julia Cameron
Almost all good writing begins with terrible first efforts. You need to start somewhere. Start by getting something—anything—down on paper. What I’ve learned to do… — Anne Lamott
I always tell my writing students that every good piece of writing begins with both a mystery and a love story. And that every single… — Silas House
Nothing frustrates me more than someone who reads something of mine or anyone else's and says, angrily, 'I don't buy it.' Why are they angry?… — Malcolm Gladwell
Good writing is the hardest form of thinking. It involves the agony of turning profoundly difficult thoughts into lucid form, then forcing them into the… — Pat Conroy
There are many rules of good writing, but the best way to find them is to be a good reader. — Stephen Ambrose
If the communication is perfect, the words have life, and that is all there is to good writing, putting down on the paper words which… — Gertrude Stein
Good writing is remembering detail. Most people want to forget. Don't forget things that were painful or embarrassing or silly. Turn them into a story… — Paula Danziger
I subscribe to about 200 blogs. I look for insights and good writing, and I look to get smarter. — Evan Williams
It goes without saying that a good Catholic novel should be good craftsmanship, good writing skills. The creative person must always be engaged in the… — Michael O'Brien
Some of my favorite movies are action movies. You want something good to say. That comes from good writing. But writing is not a skill… — Jason Statham
Really good writing, from my perspective, runs a lot like a visual on the screen. You need to create that kind of detail and have… — Ann Voskamp
I am baffled by good writing. — Paul Dano
The best way to become a successful writer is to read good writing, remember it, and then forget where you remember it from. — Gene Fowler
You have to go where the good writing is. — Damian Lewis
Screenwriting is always about what people say or do, whereas good writing is about a thought process or an abstract image or an internal monologue,… — David Nicholls
Agents and publishers only want one thing - good writing. — Jasper Fforde
I think finally good writing gets out there, and people like it, and bad writing doesn't. Well, no. Bad writing does get out there 'cause… — Robert B. Parker
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 — Bill Murray
Slow and in a good writing — Antonio Machado

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