Good Writing Quotes

Good writing has an aliveness that keeps the reader reading from one paragraph to the next, and it's not a question of gimmicks to "personalize" the author.

If they had said my writing wasn't good enough, fair enough, that's an opinion. But to say it's too complex is to insult the intelligence of the so-called young.

I don't think American poetry has gotten any better in the past 35 years. Oddly enough, creative writing programs seem to have been good for fiction, and I would not have predicted that.

As an actor, my main focus is finding good writing and attacking a good role.

Good writing is about finding and exploiting anecdotes that resonate with the reader. In storytelling, it's OK if you only make one point, as long as it's a good one.

All good writing leaves something unexpressed.

Good writing is good writing no matter what genre you're writing in, and I believe that there are only a handful of fundamental craft tools that are essential for any genre-including nonfiction.

Most of my work consisted of crossing out. Crossing out was the secret of all good writing.

Beauty and truth may be attributes of good writing, but if the writer deliberately aims at truth, he is likely to find that what he has hit is the didactic.

Good writing is clear. Talented writing is energetic. Good writing avoids errors. Talented writing makes things happen in the reader's mind - -vividly, forcefully.

Good writing is often about letting go of fear and affectation. Affectation itself, beginning with the need to define some sorts of writing as 'good' and other sorts as 'bad' is fearful behavior.

Rewrite and revise. Do not be afraid to seize what you have and cut it to ribbons ... Good writing means good revising.

The secret of good writing is to strip every sentence to its cleanest components.

My gratitude for good writing is unbounded; I’m grateful for it the way I’m grateful for the ocean.

It takes a lot of bad writing to get to a little good writing.

Good writing is about telling the truth.

Give me good writing, and I'll play it all day.

Somehow, some way, incredibly enough, good writing ultimately gets recognized. If you're a really good writer and deserve that honored position, then by God, you'll write, and you'll be read.

It may be observed of good writing, as of good blood, that it is much easier to say what it is composed of than to compose it.

My writing improved the more I wrote - and the more I read good writing, from Shakespeare on down.

Disorganizatio n is the enemy of good writing.

Agents and publishers only want one thing - good writing.

Good writing is formed partly through plan and partly through accident.

Like with anything, good writing suggest itself pretty strongly.

Good storytelling appeals to me - good writing.

Some of my favorite movies are action movies. You want something good to say. That comes from good writing. But writing is not a skill I possess, unfortunately.

Good writing is almost the concomitant of good history. Literature and history were joined long since by the powers which shaped the human brain; we cannot put them asunder.

Good writing is good conversation, only more so.

All I want is a modest place in Mr X's Good Reading, Miss Y's Good Writing, and that new edition of One Thousand Best Bits of Recent Prose.

There's such good writing now on television and I don't see a lot of great writing on films sadly.

Good writing is difficult no matter what the reader's age-and children deserve the best.

I never feel more myself than when I’m writing; I never enjoy any day more than a good writing day.

Ready writing makes not good writing, but good writing brings on ready writing.

I'm curious about writing in the age of online publishing. Because nobody cares about good writing online.

What's great about good writing is that it feels like life, so it's not hard to relate to her circumstances.

Love is the main generator of all good writing... Love, passion, compassion, are all welded together.

It was a dark and stormy night. Suddenly a scream pierced the air'. . . . Good writing takes enormous concentration.

You have to go where the good writing is.

Avoid theatrical flourishes - the phrases that sound so damned good that they stand up and beg to be recognized as "good writing," and therefore must be struck from the text.

Good writing can be defined as having something to say and saying it well. When one has nothing to say, one should remain silent. Silence is always beautiful at such times.

I think when I was younger I was not very good at writing love songs that didn't have a twist.

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 the quality of the split-second decisions you made.

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

As an actor, I go where the good writing is. That's the bottom line.

The secret of all good writing is sound judgment.

Good writing is full of surprises and novelties, moving in a direction you don't expect.

The chief difference between good writing and better writing may be measured by the number of imperceptible hesitations the reader experiences as he goes along.

Every actor just wants good writing.

The thing I am attracted to is just good writing and stories that are based somewhat in reality.

There is no royal path to good writing; and such paths as exist do not lead through neat critical gardens, various as they are, but through the jungles of self, the world, and of craft.