Good writing Quote by Gordon Lish Download Open image “The secret of good writing is telling the truth.” — Gordon Lish ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Good writing Secret Telling the truth Truth Writing
The existence of the writer is to write, and to write is to tell the truth. — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
A writer should have this little voice inside of you saying, Tell the truth. Reveal a few secrets here. — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
Good writing is deceptive in that it hides its own artifice - it makes it seem easy. — Michael Arndt Copy Share Image
“There is only one secret to great writing and that's great writing.” — Chloe Thurlow Copy Share Image
“He came to chat with me the day of my being discharged, advising that I not stay at the dog fight until the last… — Gordon Lish Copy Share Image
Writing is not about self-expression; it is about putting words on paper. — Gordon Lish Copy Share Image
“...I have come to be convinced that it is only the unbending observance of custom that sustains life in an urban circumstance.” — Gordon Lish Copy Share Image
I see the notion of talent as quite irrelevant. I see instead perseverance, application, industry, assiduity, will, will, will, desire, desire, desire. — Gordon Lish Copy Share Image
“It’s not what happens to people on the page; it’s about what happens to a reader in his heart and mind.” — Gordon Lish Copy Share Image
My only close-to-game-plan is to follow good writing. If the writing is in TV or if it's in theater or in film, that's it.… — Adam Driver Copy Share Image
Inspiration comes from so many sources. Music, other fiction, the non-fiction I read, TV shows, films, news reports, people I know, stories I hear,… — Trudi Canavan Copy Share Image
I don't think that writing, real writing, has much to do with affirming belief--if anything it causes rifts and gaps in belief which make… — Brian Evenson Copy Share Image
“But the secret of good writing is to strip every sentence to its cleanest components. Every words that serves no function, every long word… — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
There is sometimes a feeling in crime fiction that good writing gets in the way of story. I have never felt that way. All… — John Connolly Copy Share Image
There is no royal path to good writing; and such paths as exist do not lead through neat critical gardens, various as they are,… — Jessamyn West Copy Share Image
David Mamet, Tim Kazurinsky, and Denise DeClue, who adapted [ About Last Night]. Between the three of them... I mean, it's always down to… — Rob Lowe Copy Share Image
Hypertext makes a virtue out of lack of organization, allowing ideas and thoughts to be juxtaposed at will. [...] The advent of hypertext is… — Donald A. Norman Copy Share Image
The very first thing I tell my new students on the first day of a workshop is that good writing is about telling the… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I think that's one of the maybe under-discussed aspects of process - the difference between a good writing day and a bad one is… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
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