47 Good Writing Quotes for You to Enjoy

To be the windowpane - this is basically a bastardization of what Orwell said about good writing - so you can get the conversation going and frame it the right way and make sure people aren't lost. And then you let the candidates illuminate the issues themselves. John Dickerson

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

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I don't think you get to good writing unless you expose yourself and your feelings. Deep songs don't come from the surface; they come from the deep down. The poetry and the songs that you are suppose to write, I believe are in your heart. Judy Collins

I get the ideas from everything. Children sometimes think you have to have special experiences to write, but good writing brings out what's special in ordinary things. Laurence Yep

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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. Linus Roache

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I don't think I will ever write about politics or foreign policy. I feel like there is so much good writing in those areas that I have little to add. I also like to steer clear of writing about people whom I do not personally like. Malcolm Gladwell

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Good writing gives energy, whatever it is about. Marilyn Hacker

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

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My being a writer and playing Scrabble are connected. If I have a good writing day, I'll take a break and play online Scrabble. My favorite word as a child was 'carrion,' before I knew what it meant. I later created crossword puzzles, which was a lot about puns, and how words would create these strange, strange things. Meg Wolitzer

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Good writing is deceptive in that it hides its own artifice - it makes it seem easy. Michael Arndt

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Through an arbitrary problem, I had arrived at a tenet of good writing: brevity wins. Michael Winter

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Mainly I love working on good writing. Parker Posey

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

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Good directing is good writing and good casting. Robert Zemeckis

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I had the most incredible English and literature teachers in school, and it really influenced my love of storytelling. It's what made me excited to study journalism in college. I love editorials and documentaries. All of that came from being given the opportunity to lose myself in good writing when I was a kid. Sophia Bush

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As an actor you get categorized by other people, but it's not like I arrange myself into comedy mode or serious mode. If it's good writing you just have to play it true - if it's funny, it's funny. But obviously you don't want it to be amusing if you're playing Hedda Gabler! Sophie Thompson

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Write for yourself, not for a perceived audience. If you do, you'll mostly fall flat on your face, because it's impossible to judge what people want. And you have to read. That's how you learn what is good writing and what is bad. Then the main thing is application. It's hard work. Wilbur Smith

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

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Medicine has an immediate impact, the ability to do good. Writing is such a solitary activity. Uzodinma Iweala

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It goes without saying that a good Catholic novel should be good craftsmanship, good writing skills. The creative person must always be engaged in the long labor of perfecting the tools of his art. Yet the work itself need not be explicitly evangelical in its themes and plots. Michael O'Brien

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