Great Writing Quotes

Great Writing Quote of the day

There is no such thing as great writing - there is only great re-writing!

There is no great writing, only great rewriting.

Great writing attracts great actors. It attracts money. Without a great script, you have nothing.

For me, the guitar synthesizer is a great writing instrument.

Write while the heat is in you.

All you ever really want is a great character and great writing. As an actor, that's the juiciest sandwich you could ever ask for.

Never correct or rewrite until the whole thing is down.

Don't look back until you've written an entire draft.

It's just lovely to be involved in a movie that does go back to the basics - characters and great writing.

Great writing can be done in biography, history, art.

[George] Orwell's essays. It's got it all. Great writing, a worldview that I find interesting and useful, and most of it timelessly true.

I haven't ever found any great writing on that wonderful and often unappreciated art form, the insult.

There is a mystery in all great writing and that mystery does not dissect out. It continues and is always valid.

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

People don't really have a relationship with great writing or great production or great art direction or great direction. They just sort of admire it.

Great writing is great writing. It's as simple as all that.

That's where everything starts, as an actor: you've gotta have great writing and great character development, and then you have really great materials to work from.

The thing I respond to the most is just great writing, interesting characters. I like to think that there is something fun about playing a character that has a lot of authority in her own life.

It's hard to imagine there's a place for great writing inside a multinational conglomerate.

I so admire great writing done quickly, with great detail.

There is only one secret to great writing and that's great writing.

I intend to put up with nothing that I can put

Great writers speak with their works not with their mouths!