Good Writing Quotes
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Good Writing Quotes & Sayings
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Rewrite and revise. Do not be afraid to seize what you have and cut it to ribbons ... Good writing means good revising.
— William Strunk Jr.
The good writers touch life often. The mediocre ones run a quick hand over her. The bad ones rape her and leave her for the flies.
— Ray Bradbury
I write every day ... I never get ideas unless I'm actually writing. Ideas I get in the shower don't do me any good.
— Janet Fitch
I'm purely a popular writer, with no axe to grind apart from writing a good read' for entertainment and relaxation.
— Mary Howard
I didn't set out to write certain kinds of songs - I just set out to write good songs.
— Madonna Ciccone
The power of fictitious writing, for good as well as for evil, is a thing which ought most seriously to be reflected upon.
— Harriet Beecher Stowe
Uncertainty is as good a way as any to kill a story.
— Sidney Zion
... a good idea always attracts other good ideas.
— Patrick Ness
It's not so much that I write well, I just don't write badly very often and that passes for good on television.
— Andy Rooney
Good writing just isn't that common.
— Eric Flint
When I'm writing solitude feels very good. But when I'm not writing it feels lonely ... Having a big family solves that problem.
— Michael Chabon
A good writer writes with a camera, not a pen.
— Robert Newton Peck
The best of fiction, as we know, of course, doesn't tell the truth; it tales the truth.
— Criss Jami
Our good time is sitting in a coffee shop with a newspaper, writing a line on the back of a napkin. That is the most fun comedians ever have
— Jerry Seinfeld
Writing has never been like therapy for me, but blogging comes a little closer - I can smack-talk freely and frequently, and this is good for me.
— Kaui Hart Hemmings
There's such good writing now on television and I don't see a lot of great writing on films sadly.
— Scott Speedman
Writing well is at one and the same time good thinking, good feeling, and good expression; it is having wit, soul, and taste, all together.
— Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte De Buffon
Like good reading skills, good writing skills require immersion and imaginative engagement.
— Sara Sheridan
Not all fiction writers are evil, just the ones good at their job. After all, it's not a decent book if it can't make you cry.
— Ellie Rose McKee
Solitude is very important in my work as a mode of inspiration, but isolation is not good in this respect. I am not writing poetry about isolation.
— Wislawa Szymborska
When we get together to rehearse, we could write music together all day long - GOOD music.
— Anthony Kiedis
Good writing is full of surprises and novelties, moving in a direction you don't expect.
— Iris Murdoch
Letter writing is the only device combining solitude with good company.
— George Gordon Byron
Writing all day every day is good, but it's not good enough. You need to have your clone ghostwriting for you too.
— Jarod Kintz
Someone who does not write books, who thinks a lot, and who lives in unsatisfying society will usually be a good letter- writer.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
The devil had not only acquired a monopoly of the good music and the good fun, but has of late acquired a controlling interest in the good writing.
— Ambrose Bierce
A real and admirable writer is the one who can write good books but can take criticisms better.
— Nicholaa Spencer
Writing can come naturally to some. Still, when it comes to good writing, this is true: Easy reading is damn hard writing.
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
— G.K. Chesterton
No matter how good it is, your book will not sell itself.
— Elinor Florence
As nobody can possibly tell me whether one's writing is bad or good, the only certain value is one's own pleasure. I am sure of that.
— Virginia Woolf
Writing a great script - not just a good one, but a great one - is almost an impossible task.
— Michael Arndt
Mice: But reading all the good writers might discourage you.Y.C.: Then you ought to be discouraged. — Ernest Hemingway,
The sermon which I write inquisitive of truth is good a year after, but that which is written because a sermon must be writ is musty the next day.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The makers of the short story have rarely been good novelists.
— V.S. Pritchett
Feeling intimidated is a good sign. Writing from a place of safety produces stuff that is at best dull and at worst dishonest.
— Lucy Prebble
I'm not a very good writer, but I'm an excellent rewriter.
— James A. Michener
Write good content about stuff that you love. Readers will find you.
— Michael Arrington
Good writing is a kind of skating which carries off the performer where he would not go.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
I found when I had finished my new lecture that it was a very good house, only the architect had unfortunately omitted the stairs.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
A photographer is like a writer ... you're writing with your lens so make sure you tell a good story.
— Habib Umar Bin Hafiz
Good authors, too, who once knew better words now only use four-letter words writing prose ... anything goes.
— Cole Porter
Judas, boredom is such a drag, drag, drag. Writing might be good therapy for me, though.
— Beatrice Sparks
If you don't think screenwriting is a work of art, good luck in your life without a soul.
— A.D. Posey
Write what you love and love what you write.
— Ray Bradbury
There are three good things in this world. One is to read poetry, another is to write poetry, and the best of all is to live poetry.
— Rupert Brooke
One day you will tell me how to change what I cannot yet describe without my words swelling HUGE, vowels vanishing, tears washing ink away.
— Alasdair Gray
Everything I write is for her; none of it is ever good enough.
— Kristopher Jansma
If you try to create a type, you may end with nothing. If you do a good job of creating an individual, you may succeed at creating a type.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
All the elements of good writing depend on the writer's skill in choosing one word instead of another.
— Francine Prose
The p'int of good writing is to know when to stop.
— L.M. Montgomery
If you have a good script, that's what gets you involved. It's harder to write a good screenplay than to find something.
— Bill Murray
It feels good to read book. But it is grander to write book.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Man is driven to create; I know I really love to create things. And while I'm not good at painting, drawing, or music, I can write software.
— Yukihiro Matsumoto
But I wouldn't recommend writing. You can be a successful writer and never meet another soul. I'm not sure that's a good thing.
— J.G. Ballard
There is no left and right in writing. There is only good and bad writing.
— Ernest Hemingway,
Doing interesting things and then writing about them is the best way to become a good writer.
— Jean Craighead George
Don't worry about what you're writing or whether it's good or even whether it makes sense.
— Lauren Oliver
Not everyone gets to do what they love, be good at it, and get paid for it. If you do, you're lucky.
— Britt Holewinski
There is no such thing as good writing, only good rewriting.
— Robert Graves
Good writers are often excellent at a hundred other things, but writing promises a greater latitude for the ego.
— John Cheever
Tomorrow may be hell, but today was a good writing day, and on the good writing days nothing else matters.
— Neil Gaiman
Whenever something good happens, write it down. Buy a special notebook ... and use it to list all the good in your life.
— Peter McWilliams
I've been used for writing rhythm guitar chords for a long time because it's so easy to play and chords just sound good on it.
— Bradford Cox
A true storyteller is really good at writing himself into a corner and then finding a way out of that corner
— Michael Chabon
Good writing is deceptive in that it hides its own artifice - it makes it seem easy.
— Michael Arndt
A good book is not the same as a successful one.
— Johnny Rich
I can act ... I do a little writing as well. And I'm good at typing. I'm a creative typist, actually.
— Chris Colfer
Author' is just a fancy word for Schizophrenic people with good writing skills and cash.
— Testy McTesterson
Only bad writers think that their work is really good.
— Anne Enright
I attribute my good fortune to the simple fact that I have always tried to write straight from my own heart to the hearts of others.
— Marie Corelli
Disorganizatio n is the enemy of good writing.
— Guy Kawasaki
Good horror offers a sense of an upended, lawless world and that's appealing to anyone who grew up feeling like an outsider.
— Christopher Rice
For some of us, good books and beautiful writing are our ultimate solace, even more comforting than exquisite food.
— Anne Lamott
I knew I wasn't that good a writer, and all I could remember was that I could draw. I'm better at drawing than I am at writing.
— Claes Oldenburg
Good blurbs are short, sweet, and limited to six. They answer the question Why should I buy this book?
— Guy Kawasaki
The good writer seems to be writing about himself, but has his eye always on that thread of the Universe which runs through himself and all things.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
I like to write when I feel spiteful. It is like having a good sneeze.(Letter to Cynthia Asquith, November 1913) — D.H. Lawrence
It is a good deal easier for most people to state an abstract idea than to describe and thus re-create some object they actually see.
— Flannery O'Connor
good writing and brilliant discourse are perpetual allegories. This
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
