Good writing Quote by Roald Dahl Download Open image “Good writing is essentially rewriting.” — Roald Dahl ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Good writing Inspirational Rewriting Writing
A good writer is not someone who knows how to write- but how to rewrite — William Goldman Copy Share Image
Good writing is good writing, but that doesn't mean you can't orchestrate it or tweak it. — John Travolta Copy Share Image
Nowadays you can go anywhere in the world in a few hours, and nothing is fabulous any more. — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
When I walked to school in the mornings I would start out alone but would pick up four other boys along the way. We… — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
“There's no earthly way of knowing Which direction we are going There's no knowing where we're rowing Or which way the river's flowing Is… — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
“One of the vital things for a writer who’s writing a book, which is a lengthy project and is going to take about a… — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
“When Bruce Bogtrotter had eaten his way through half of the entire enormous cake, he paused for just a couple of seconds and took… — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
Bunkum and tummyrot! You'll never get anywhere if you go about what-iffing like that. Would Columbus have discovered America if he'd said 'What if… — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
If the Good Lord intended for us to walk, he wouldn't have invented rollar skates. — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
The witching hour, somebody had once whispered to her, was a special moment in the middle of the night when every child and every… — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
But there was one other thing that the grown-ups also knew, and it was this: that however small the chance might be of striking… — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
When writing about oneself, one must strive to be truthful. Truth is more important than modesty. — Roald Dahl 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
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
Our tragedy today is a general and universal physical fear so long sustained by now that we can even bear it. There are no… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
