Good Writing Quotes

Good Writing Quote of the day

Write about what you know and care deeply about. When one puts one's self on paper - that is what is called good writing.

Good writing excites me, and makes life worth living.

Good writing ... involves the agony of turning profoundly difficult thoughts into lucid form, then forcing them into the tight-fitting uniform of language, making them visible and clear.

There is no such thing as good writing, only good rewriting.

There is more good writing and good acting in any ten minutes of Twister than in, say, all of Citizen Kane.

It's a damn good story. If you have any comments, write them on the back of a check.

People do not deserve to have good writing, they are so pleased with bad.

I suppose with any good writing and interesting characters, you can have that awfully overused word [...] - a jouuuuuurney.

I think that good writing is based on good reading. Maybe it's not about writing today, maybe it's about reading today. Maybe it's about finding the sort of book you would never read.

Let us prove to the world that good taste, good art, and good writing can be good selling.

Good writing is a kind of skating which carries off the performer where he would not go.

Knowledge is the foundation and source of good writing. [Lat., Scibendi recte sapere est et principium et fons.]

Writing stopped being fun when I discovered the difference between good writing and bad and, even more terrifying, the difference between it and true art. And after that, the whip came down.

Good writing is essentially rewriting.

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

Bad writing is not easier than good writing. It's just as hard to make a toilet seat as it is a castle window. Only the view is different.

The secret of good writing is to say an old thing in a new way or to say a new thing in an old way.

Good writing is like a bomb: it explodes in the face of the reader.

All the elements of good writing depend on the writer's skill in choosing one word instead of another.

Good writing is good writing, and I'm so happy when I read it.

Good writing comes from good talent.

Good writing isn’t a science. It’s an art, and the horizon is infinite. You can always get better.

The best way to become a successful writer is to read good writing, remember it, and then forget where you remember it from.

No blur of inexactness, no cloud of vagueness, is allowable in good writing; from the first seeing to the last putting down, there must be steady lucidity and uncompromise of purpose.

the problems of the human heart in conflict with itself which alone can make good writing because only that is worth writing about, worth the agony and the sweat

Good writing will bring you to places you don't even expect sometimes.

So far as good writing goes, the use of the exclamation mark is a sign of failure. It is the literary equivalent of a man holding up a card reading LAUGHTER to a studio audience.

Because good writing in a TV cartoon is so rare, I think the animation on The Simpsons is often overlooked.

Writing is good, thinking is better. Cleverness is good, patience is better.

I've hung out in the writer's room a few times, but the fact is we've got such a good writing staff, I don't want to get my peanut butter fingerprints on anything.

Good writing is like a windowpane.

To me there is no such thing as creative writing. It's either good writing, whatever the subject, or it's not creative.

Good writing happens when human beings follow particular steps to take control of their sentences-to make their words do what they want them to do.

Almost all good writing begins with terrible first efforts. You need to start somewhere.

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

Good writing , like gold , combines lustrous lucidity with high density. What this means is good writing is packed with hints.

He could hardly read or write but his heart spoke the language of the good

Good writing is the hardest form of thinking.

Good sense is both the first principal and the parent source of good writing.

The secret of good writing is telling the truth.

In good writing, words become one with things.

Only bad writers think that their work is really good.

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 shark-filled lagoon out there. Cross your fingers and watch your back.

The good writing of any age has always been the product of someone's neurosis.

Good writing is rewriting.

I think all good writing is a struggle. To write as well as you feel you can has to be a struggle, almost by definition, because you could always improve.

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.

You do an awful lot of bad writing in order to do any good writing. Incredibly bad. I think it would be very interesting to make a collection of some of the worst writing by good writers.

Screenwriting is always about what people say or do, whereas good writing is about a thought process or an abstract image or an internal monologue, none of which works on screen.

Good writing of course requires talent, and no one can teach you to have talent.