Books Quote by Meg Wolitzer

In You Are Not Dead Wendy Xu breaks all the old rules that have never done us any favors anyway. She writes beautifully, noticing…

— James Tate

I was happy when I read the script [The Bourne Ultimatum ] - the first version they sent me - to see that before,…

— Julia Stiles

I am always writing. It is not always good, but if I am writing, I am usually happy.

— Matthew Nable

Writing, or at least good writing, is an outgrowth of that urge to use language to communicate complex ideas and experiences between people. And…

— John Green

I would rather not write if I'm depressed, or am going through a breakup, or I've had some disappointment, or I'm having a family…

— Mandy Stadtmiller

Good writing is the hardest form of thinking. It involves the agony of turning profoundly difficult thoughts into lucid form, then forcing them into…

— Pat Conroy

Good writing is often about letting go of fear and affectation. Affectation itself, beginning with the need to define some sorts of writing as…

— Stephen King

Good writing is good writing. In many ways, it’s the audience and their expectations that define a genre. A reader of literary fiction expects…

— Rosemary Clement-Moore

I wish you good writing and good luck. Even if you've already done the good writing, you'll still need the good luck. It's a…

— Margaret Atwood

An essential element for good writing is a good ear: One must listen to the sound of one's own prose.

— Barbara Tuchman

There is no good writing; there is only good rewriting.

— Louis D. Brandeis

Always care for the writing part first. Every good film project starts with good writing. If you have a good script, everything else follows.…

— Giovanna Cau