Good Writing Quotes

As an actor, you are in a unique position because you’re not only memorizing dialogue but really embodying it. You naturally feel the rhythm of good writing.

Good writing is good writing, but that doesn't mean you can't orchestrate it or tweak it.

Good writing never soothes or comforts. It is no prescription, neither is it diversionary, although it can and should enchant while it explodes in the reader's face.

I don't think you get to good writing unless you expose yourself and your feelings.

All good writing is built one good line at a time. You build a novel the same way you do a pyramid. One word, one stone at a time, underneath a full moon while the fingers bleed.

There's a perception that good writing is writing which runs smoothly. But smooth-running prose can work against what you're trying to express in a novel.

I'm more interested in the writing than in the content per se (good writing can be about wallpaper and I'll devour it).

When you've got good writing, you can kind of give up all the research, in a way, and start just following the emotional integrity of the journey of your character.

Good writing gives energy, whatever it is about.

Nobody sounds good writing about your divorce, let's face it.

I have a very healthy appetite for good writing and good characters. Having weak writing is my biggest fear.

I guess it's a bit cliché, but as an actor, I really admire good writing. There are a lot of great ideas out there, but it's the execution that really makes it work.

Writing can come naturally to some. Still, when it comes to good writing, this is true: Easy reading is damn hard writing.

When you recognize good writing and you're lucky enough to get it, like with Lost, that's what I follow.

There's not a conspiracy to prevent really good writing from being found You have to have the humility to fail over and over and over.

You have to be an extremely good reader to appreciate what a good writer is. There are some people who are completely insensitive to good writing.

Clichés are what good writing is all about. Because our lives are basically clichés.

Good writing must stay open to the questions and not fall prey to the pull of a polemic, otherwise, words simply become predictable, sentimental, and stale.

Good writing is lean and confident.

To write a damn good thriller, you need a killer attitude.

There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.

Good fiction writers have an instinctive understanding of human nature. That's what makes stories and characters captivating. Good spiritual writers share what they sincerely practice themselves.

A writer needs to ingest love to be passionate. Passion is a metabolite of love, and good writing is an active metabolite of passion.

It's not always so easy, " she said softly."Why not? It's a part of who you are, isn't it?" he asked with all the sympathy of an asp being prodded with a stick.

I started writing stories in sixth grade. But writing wasn't cool, like being good at sports, or being part of the in crowd, or winning fights on the playground.