Blood Quote by Charles Caleb Colton

Good writing , like gold , combines lustrous lucidity with high density. What this means is good writing is packed with hints.

— Eric Hoffer

Good writing is deceptive in that it hides its own artifice - it makes it seem easy.

— Michael Arndt

Of all that is written, I love only what a person has written with his own blood.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The thing about good writing is it has a music to it.

— Lauren Graham

Literary gentlemen, editors, and critics think that they know how to write, because they have studied grammar and rhetoric; but they are egregiously mistaken.…

— Henry David Thoreau

The writing I tend to think of as 'good' is good because it's mysterious.

— Aimee Bender

Of all writings I love only that which is written with blood. Write with blood: and you will discover that blood is spirit.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

One of the hardest parts of writing is writing from the gut or the heart or something like that rather than intellectually.

— George R. R. Martin

I believe that writing is derivative. I think good writing comes from good reading.

— Charles Kuralt

“If writing is thinking and discovery and selection and order and meaning, it is also awe and reverence and mystery and magic…Authors arrive at…

— Toni Morrison

All the elements of good writing depend on the writer's skill in choosing one word instead of another.

— Francine Prose

Writing well is at one and the same time good thinking, good feeling, and good expression; it is having wit, soul, and taste, all…

— Anonymous