Best Good Writing Lines
151 Good Writing quotes by 124 unique authors
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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
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Good writing is good conversation, only more so.
— Ernest Hemingway
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Good writing takes place at intersections, at what you might call knots, at places where the society is snarled or knotted up.
— Margaret Atwood
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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
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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
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Just as a good rain clears the air, a good writing day clears the psyche.
— Julia Cameron
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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
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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
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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
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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
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There are many rules of good writing, but the best way to find them is to be a good reader.
— Stephen Ambrose
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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
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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
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I subscribe to about 200 blogs. I look for insights and good writing, and I look to get smarter.
— Evan Williams
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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
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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
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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
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I am baffled by good writing.
— Paul Dano
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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
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You have to go where the good writing is.
— Damian Lewis
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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
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Agents and publishers only want one thing - good writing.
— Jasper Fforde
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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
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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
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Slow and in a good writing
— Antonio Machado
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