G Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with G. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Good writing is about finding and exploiting anecdotes that resonate with the reader. In storytelling, it's OK if you only make one point, as long as it's a good one.”
“Good writing is about telling the truth.”
Source: Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
“Good writing is almost the concomitant of good history. Literature and history were joined long since by the powers which shaped the human brain; we cannot put them asunder.”
“Good writing is always about things that are important to you, things that are scary to you, things that eat you up.”
Source: Conversations with John Edgar Wideman
“Good writing is always new.”
“Good writing is both what one does and does not say.”
“Good writing is clear. Talented writing is energetic. Good writing avoids errors. Talented writing makes things happen in the reader's mind - -vividly, forcefully.”
Source: About Writing: Seven Essays, Four Letters, & Five Interviews
“Good writing is deceptive in that it hides its own artifice - it makes it seem easy.”
“Good writing is difficult no matter what the reader's age-and children deserve the best.”
Source: The Business of Writing for Children
“Good writing is essentially rewriting.”
“Good writing is formed partly through plan and partly through accident.”
“Good writing is full of surprises and novelties, moving in a direction you don't expect.”
Source: From a Tiny Corner in the House of Fiction: Conversations with Iris Murdoch
“Good writing is good conversation, only more so.”
“Good writing is good writing no matter what genre you're writing in, and I believe that there are only a handful of fundamental craft tools that are essential for any genre-including nonfiction.”
“Good writing is good writing, and I'm so happy when I read it.”
“Good writing is good writing, but that doesn't mean you can't orchestrate it or tweak it.”
“Good writing is good writing. In many ways, it’s the audience and their expectations that define a genre. A reader of literary fiction expects the writing to illuminate the human condition, some aspect of our world and our role in it. A reader of genre fiction likes that, too, as long as it doesn’t get in the way of the story.”
“Good writing is lean and confident.”
Source: On Writing Well: An Informal Guide to Writing Nonfiction
“Good writing is like a bomb: it explodes in the face of the reader.”
“Good writing is like a windowpane.”
“Good writing is more about graft and craft than inspiration and aspiration.”
“good writing is more than just grammar. it’s about connection and creativity. don’t let the pursuit of ‘perfect’ rules drown your best work.”
“Good writing is often about letting go of fear and affectation. Affectation itself, beginning with the need to define some sorts of writing as 'good' and other sorts as 'bad' is fearful behavior.”
Source: On Writing
“Good writing is remembering detail. Most people want to forget. Don't forget things that were painful or embarrassing or silly. Turn them into a story that tells the truth.”
“Good writing is rewriting.”
“Good writing is supposed to evoke sensation in the reader - not the fact that it is raining, but the feeling of being rained upon.”
“Good writing is the hardest form of thinking.”
“Good writing is the hardest form of thinking. It 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. If the writing is good, then the result seems effortless and inevitable. But when you want to say something life-changing or ineffable in a single sentence, you face both the limitations of the sentence itself and the extent of your own talent.”
“Good writing is true writing. If a man is making a story up it will be true in proportion to the amount of knowledge of life that he has and how conscientious he is; so that when he makes something up it is as it would truly be.”
Source: On Writing
“Good writing is writing and rewriting and rewriting and rewriting. Sometimes, it happens to work right away, and that's amazing. But most of the time, it happens to work, and then you rewrite and rewrite and rewrite, and maybe it even comes back to the thing it was in the first place, but then you know for sure that it is good, and it's what you wanted to do.”
“Good writing isn’t a science. It’s an art, and the horizon is infinite. You can always get better.”
“Good writing like good sex requires discipline.”
Source: The Fifty Shades of Grey Phenomena
“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.”
Source: A voice in the wilderness: conversations with Terry Tempest Williams
“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.”
Source: Ill Nature: Rants and Reflections on Humanity and Other Animals
“Good writing of course requires talent, and no one can teach you to have talent.”
“Good writing takes place at intersections, at what you might call knots, at places where the society is snarled or knotted up.”
“Good writing will bring you to places you don't even expect sometimes.”
“Good writing works from a simple premise: your experience is not yours alone, but in some sense a metaphor for everyone's.”
Source: The Poet's Companion: A Guide to the Pleasures of Writing Poetry
“Good writing, and this is especially important in a subject such as economics, must also involve the reader in the matter at hand. It is not enough to explain. The images that are in the mind of the writer must be made to reappear in the mind of the reader, and it is the absence of this ability that causes much economic writing to be condemned, quite properly, as abstract.”
“Good writing, in my opinion, is writing that looks really easy, so easy that a person who has never written more than a grocery list might convince themself that they could also write a book. That being said, it's always a lot of work, as you know. And then there's this: you have no idea how many failed stories and novels I've attempted. I have files full of stories that didn't work for whatever reason.”
“Good. You are not safe. Not in this castle. Not in this room. You are prey in a world of predators.'
He leaned closer.
'I will never hurt you,' he said softly. 'But I am the only one who will make that promise, and keep it. I will never give you false safety or kind lies. But I will teach you how to wield those teeth of yours.' He smiled, revealing for the first time the full length of his sharp canines- the death blow, surely, of hundreds.
The girl should have found the sight terrifying. And yet, for the first time in a month, she felt... safe.
'Perhaps they are not as sharp as mine,' he went on, 'but they can still kill, with the right bite.”
Source: The Serpent and the Wings of Night
“Good, you're awake. I trust you've healed enough over the past few hours to be a little more coherent, and little less miserable"
"coherent, yes. Less miserable, no. Just a
deferent kind of misery”
Source: Scythe
“Good! Hang in there! It's normal! [Low self-esteem] Often it's a sign of intelligence (but don't let that go to your head haha)”
“Good' did not triumph. 'Evil' did not triumph. The two resolved, destroyed each other and created new 'evils', new 'goods' which slew each other in their turn.”
Source: Epitaph for a Spy
“GOOD, adj. Sensible, madam, to the worth of this present writer. Alive, sir, to the advantages of letting him alone.”
Source: The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
“Good, as it ripens, becomes continually more different not only from evil but from other good.”
Source: The Great Divorce
“Good, bad mediocre or whatever it is, if a director wants me in his movie, I take it as a compliment.”
“Good, bad or indifferent, I'm transparent with my opinions and what I believe. I just don't think in politics you can be that way.”
“Good, bad, I'm the guy with the gun”
“Good, bad, or indifferent - it doesn't matter, just work.”