Great writing Quote by Matthew Specktor Download Open image “It's hard to imagine there's a place for great writing inside a multinational conglomerate.” — Matthew Specktor ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Great writing Hard Imagine Multinationals Writing
If writers were good businessmen, they'd have too much sense to be writers. — Irvin S. Cobb Copy Share Image
I feel that if you made your writing too contrived to meet the market, it wouldn't be any good. — Cathy Marie Buchanan Copy Share Image
It's difficult for a company to be anywhere interesting in a world that is so dominated by prototypes and great and bright ideas. — Marcel Wanders Copy Share Image
Curiously, the United States is full of writers who have one big work in their life and that's all. — Irwin Shaw Copy Share Image
I suppose in the long run, it's the good work that outlasts the shoddy work, but there's enough room for all kinds of writing. — Ruskin Bond Copy Share Image
If a single writer in a country is in chains, then there are some links of that chain that binds us all. — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
Writing is a miserable, awful business. Stay with it. It is better than anything in the world. — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
“If writers were good business men, they'd have too much sense to be writers.” — Irvin S. Cobb Copy Share Image
There are a lot of people in this country who really like my writing. And a lot of writers respect me. But the so-called… — Hubert Selby, Jr Copy Share Image
We go to literature because it shows us some set of humane values. It is showing us how to live. — Matthew Specktor Copy Share Image
I've always found too that somewhere in whatever you've just written lies the seed of what you're going to write next. — Matthew Specktor Copy Share Image
My own sense is that fiction is inching its way over to join poetry on the cultural margin. It's an area of passionate concern… — Matthew Specktor Copy Share Image
Our need to identify with representative figures is something that never goes away. We still find those in novels. We find those in television.… — Matthew Specktor Copy Share Image
100 million dollars used to be the limit of what a movie might cost; now they routinely cost 300 million. Sooner or later, spectacle… — Matthew Specktor Copy Share Image
A lot of talent, a lot of the currency that movies used to have, has spilled over into TV. People talk about TV the… — Matthew Specktor Copy Share Image
Much to my surprise, there's a sense for people in the cable industry that fiction writers might actually be good at script writing. You… — Matthew Specktor Copy Share Image
Even though I think writers can sometimes thrive from being misread. It can give them something to push off of. — Matthew Specktor Copy Share Image
I'm going to write what I feel like writing, which is a great place to be. But it can be hard to get there.… — Matthew Specktor Copy Share Image
The feature film business, the studio film business, feels to me like there's just nowhere else to go. It's like a record that's just… — Matthew Specktor Copy Share Image
There's a kind of perverseness or betrayal in that idea that art is somehow superior to life. Or that it's more important to write… — Matthew Specktor Copy Share Image
Great books are written from a sense that there is nothing to lose. — Matthew Specktor Copy Share Image
Nothing teaches great writing like the very best books do. Yet, good teachers often help students cross that bridge, and I have to say… — Julia Glass Copy Share Image
“On the drive over, Richards kept marveling at the transforming power of having a felony to commit. His brother looked more like his "normal"… — Robert Roper Copy Share Image
Let the world burn through you. Throw the prism light, white hot, on paper. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“Before I could get my bearings he was on top of me and shoving my face down into the dirt. He was bigger and… — Tana French Copy Share Image
It's just lovely to be involved in a movie that does go back to the basics - characters and great writing. — Clive Owen Copy Share Image
“What was glimpsed in Aquarius—what was envisioned, believed in, prophesied, predicted, doubted, and forewarned—is made, in Pisces, manifest. Those solitary visions that, but a… — Eleanor Catton Copy Share Image
“In truly good writing no matter how many times you read it you do not know how it is done. That is beacause there… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“... and Louisa watched another car arriving, this one as unmarked as the cop cars, but more so.” — Mick Herron Copy Share Image
I was opposed to doing TV for a long time because I thought the quality of writing wasn't very strong, as opposed to film,… — Peter Dinklage Copy Share Image
I write less about alcohol, less and less and less. You 're an addict - so of course you write about the thing you… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
“Damn, Easy,” the intrepid sideman said. “Trouble got your name tattooed on the inside’a his eyelids. He be studyin’ you in his sleep.” — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
“They grew some of their own vegetables, but Semple was never in eighteen years allowed out into the truck gardens. Instead, he watched out… — Don Carpenter Copy Share Image