Alive Quote by Ken Macrorie

Good writing is always about things that are important to you, things that are scary to you, things that eat you up.

— John Edgar Wideman

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

I am not a great fan of serious, heavy writing. I prefer simple, short sentences, light on prose.

— Ravi Subramanian

Good writing can be defined as having something to say and saying it well. When one has nothing to say, one should remain silent.…

— Edward Abbey

The best style of writing, as well as the most forcible, is the plainest.

— Horace Greeley

The only good writing is intuitive writing. It would be a big bore if you knew where it was going. It has to be…

— Ray Bradbury

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

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

— Lauren Graham

Any one who wishes to become a good writer should endeavour, before he allows himself to be tempted by the more showy qualities, to…

— Henry Watson Fowler

I have a great many opinions about writing, but I'm afraid that all of them are unprintable

— Alfred Lansing

Good writing is a kind of skating which carries off the performer where he would not go, and is only right admirable when to…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is good and mediocre writing within every genre.

— Margaret Atwood