Good writing Quote by John Travolta Download Open image “Good writing is good writing, but that doesn't mean you can't orchestrate it or tweak it.” — John Travolta ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Good writing Mean Tweak Writing
You just can't make bad writing look good. But if you have good writing, you just say it, and it's almost done. — Carol Kane Copy Share Image
Good writing happens when human beings follow particular steps to take control of their sentences-to make their words do what they want them to… — Ralph Fletcher Copy Share Image
If you don't allow yourself the possibility of writing something very, very bad, it would be hard to write something very good. — Steven Galloway Copy Share Image
I think all good writing is a struggle. To write as well as you feel you can has to be a struggle, almost by… — Jane Asher Copy Share Image
Playing a bad guy is always a freeing experience, because you don't have the same envelope of restrictions as you have playing a good… — John Travolta Copy Share Image
I think my friend Tom Hanks knows me. He understands me very well. He's always had a sort of parental feeling toward me. He… — John Travolta Copy Share Image
I am not at all computer literate in real life. I haven't yet found a reason to be. Once I find a reason why… — John Travolta Copy Share Image
People make judgments about Scientology, but often they don't know what they're talking about. — John Travolta Copy Share Image
Having kids is something you can't always do. Kids are like lightning. You grab that lightning when you can get it. — John Travolta Copy Share Image
I am very healthy. Career wise, even old men get to be in movies. So as long as I am healthy, I will continue… — John Travolta Copy Share Image
I think, for sure, 'Saturday Night Fever' and 'Pulp Fiction' were kind of bookends for - or the pillars of - my career. — John Travolta Copy Share Image
The Beatles meant everything to me growing up, and John was part of that. I loved Lennon's persona. He knew who he was and… — John Travolta Copy Share Image
You can't control the quality of projects that are coming to you, so if you get several in a row that are quality, you… — John Travolta 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 belief more complex and more textured, more real. Good writing unsettles, destroys both the author and the reader. From my perspective, there always has to be a tension between the writer and the monolithic elements of… — Brian Evenson Copy Share
“But the secret of good writing is to strip every sentence to its cleanest components. Every words that serves no function, every long word that could be a short word, every adverb that carries the same meaning that's already in the verb, every passive construction that leaves the reader unsure of who is doing what--these are the thousand and one… — William Zinsser Copy Share
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
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 truth. We are a species that needs and wants to understand who we are. Sheep lice do not seem to share this longing, which is one reason they write so very little. But we do. We… — Anne Lamott Copy Share
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
Our tragedy today is a general and universal physical fear so long sustained by now that we can even bear it. There are no longer problems of the spirit. There is only the question: When will I be blown up? Because of this, the young man or woman writing today has forgotten the problems of the human heart in conflict… — William Faulkner Copy Share