Write Good Quotes
27 quotes by 26 authors
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To write good SF today...you must push further and harder, reach deeper into your own mind until you break through into the strange and terrible…
— Gardner Dozois
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History is life; he who has not lived, or has lived only enough to write a doctoral dissertation, is too inexperienced with life to write…
— Louis Moreau Gottschalk
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Don’t romanticise your ‘vocation’. You can either write good sentences or you can’t. There is no ‘writer’s lifestyle’. All that matters is what you leave…
— Zadie Smith
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I firmly disbelieve that one has to be a tortured soul to write good music.
— PJ Harvey
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I'm a salami writer. I try to write good salami, but salami is salami.
— Stephen King
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Ugly programs are like ugly suspension bridges: they're much more liable to collapse than pretty ones, because the way humans (especially engineer-humans) perceive beauty is…
— Eric S. Raymond
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Write good content about stuff that you love. Readers will find you.
— Michael Arrington
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My recommendation for SEO is very simple. It’s Write Good Stuff. In my mind, Google is in the business of finding good stuff. It has…
— Guy Kawasaki
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When I first started writing plays I couldn't write good dialogue because I didn't respect how black people talked. I thought that in order to…
— August Wilson
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I don't take notes; I don't outline, I don't do anything like that. I just flail away at the goddamn thing. I'm a salami writer.…
— Stephen King
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The same common sense which makes an author write good things, makes him dread they are not good enough to deserve reading.
— Jean de la Bruyere
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I was never trying to write a hit. I was just trying to write good songs and get a message out, and it was my…
— John Denver
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The only pressure I feel is to write good books. And to not replicate the previous book. Whether you have a thousand readers or a…
— Jo Nesbo
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If you write, good ideas must come welling up into you so that you have something to write. If good ideas do not come at…
— Brenda Ueland
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I do a lot of performing, but don't get a chance to go to the studio and write good music.
— Bobby McFerrin
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Ultimately the first, best step in getting your work noticed is to write good work. If people don't engage in your writing, no amount of…
— John Scalzi
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When I read good stories, I want to write good stories too.
— Sharon Creech
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My goal from the very beginning was just to write good songs that don't require any production to be felt or understood. I wanted to…
— Madonna Ciccone
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There is a part of me in every character, naturally. That's why novelists rarely write good autobiographies. You start one and it becomes another novel.
— John Dos Passos
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I'm not everybody's cup of tea. But sometimes criticism can be hurtful. Be respectful. I'm a good piano player, I can sing well, I write…
— Elton John
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