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“All good writing is built one good line at a time. You build a novel the same way you do a pyramid. One word, one stone at a time, underneath a full moon while the fingers bleed.”

Way Writing Lines Novel Moon Built Stones Fingers One Word Pyramids Good Writing Full Moon

Author:Kate Braverman

“I never feel more myself than when I’m writing; I never enjoy any day more than a good writing day.”

Feels Writing Enjoy Good Writing

Author:Anthony Minghella

“Good writing is always about things that are important to you, things that are scary to you, things that eat you up.”

Writing Important Scary Good Writing

Book:Conversations with John Edgar Wideman

Source: Conversations with John Edgar Wideman

“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.”

Thinking Feels Writing Wells Struggle Definitions Good Writing

Author:Jane Asher

“Good writing is formed partly through plan and partly through accident.”

Writing Plans Accidents Good Writing

Author:Ken Macrorie

“Most good writing is clear, vigorous, honest, alive, sensuous, appropriate, unsentimental, rhythmic, without pretension, fresh, metaphorical, evocative in sound, economical, authoritative, surprising, memorable, and light.”

Writing Light Sound Clear Alive Honest Memorable Appropriate Surprising Vigorous Good Writing Pretension Metaphorical Sensuous

Book:Telling Writing

Source: Telling Writing

“Good writing is supposed to evoke sensation in the reader - not the fact that it is raining, but the feeling of being rained upon.”

“It's okay to disagree with the thoughts or opinions expressed by other people. That doesn't give you the right to deny any sense they might make. Nor does it give you a right to accuse someone of poorly expressing their beliefs just because you don't like what they are saying. Learn to recognize good writing when you read it, even if it means overcoming your pride and opening your mind beyond what is comfortable.”

“Every page was once a blank page, just as every word that appears on it now was not always there, but instead reflects the final result of countless large and small deliberations. All the elements of good writing depend on the writer's skill in choosing one word instead of another. And what grabs and keeps our interest has everything to do with those choices.”

Writing Choices Interest Results Depends Skills Elements Pages Finals Blank One Word Good Writing Deliberation Blank Pages Choosing One

Book:Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them

Source: Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them

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

Writing Art Infinite Get Better Horizon Good Writing

Author:David Foster Wallace

“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.”

Writing Form Language Difficult Clear Visible Agony Uniforms Fitting Good Writing

Author:Pat Conroy

“Good writing is the hardest form of thinking.”

Thinking Writing Form Hardest Good Writing

Author:Pat Conroy

“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!”

People Ifs Want Writing Play Actors Comedy Serious Amusing Good Writing

Author:Sophie Thompson

“Left to it's own devices, writing is like weather. It has a drama, a form, a force to it that shapes the day. Just as good rain clears the air, a good writing day clears the psyche. There is something very right about simply letting yourself write. And the way to do that is to begin, to begin where you are.”

Way Writing Form Left Force Air Drama Shapes Rain Weather Devices Where You Are Good Writing Good Rain

Book:The Right to Write: An Invitation and Initiation into the Writing Life

Source: The Right to Write: An Invitation and Initiation into the Writing Life

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

Writing Good Writing Rewriting

Author:Robert Graves

“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.”

Thinking Writing Would Be Order Interesting Worst Awful Collections Very Interesting Good Writing Good Writers Bad Writing

Author:William S. Burroughs

“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.”

Writing Mind Made Important Matter Enough Hands Causes Ability Economic Subjects Reader Economics Absence Abstract Good Writing

Author:John Kenneth Galbraith

“Writing is not about making a buck, not about publishers and agents. Writing is not about feeling good. Writing is about pain, suffering, hard work, risk, and fear.”

Writing Hard Feelings Pain Suffering Risk Hard Work Feel Good Agents Publishers Bucks Good Writing Pain Suffering

Author:Sue Grafton

“Somehow, some way, incredibly enough, good writing ultimately gets recognized. If you're a really good writer and deserve that honored position, then by God, you'll write, and you'll be read.”

Ifs Way Writing Enough Position Deserve Honored Good Writing Good Writers

Author:Rod Serling

“Good writing comes from good talent.”

Writing Talent Good Writing

Book:Philosophical diary

Source: Philosophical diary

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

Writing Good Writing

Author:Meg Wolitzer

“Love is the main generator of all good writing... Love, passion, compassion, are all welded together.”

Writing Together Passion Love Is Compassion Good Writing Love Passion Generator Writing Love

Book:The Mortgaged Heart: Selected Writings

Source: The Mortgaged Heart: Selected Writings

“As an actor, you are in a unique position because you’re not only memorizing dialogue but really embodying it. You naturally feel the rhythm of good writing.”

Feels Writing Actors Position Unique Dialogue Rhythm Good Writing Memorizing

Author:Jesse Eisenberg

“Disorganizatio n is the enemy of good writing.”

Writing Enemy Good Writing

Author:Guy Kawasaki

“I think that's one of the maybe under-discussed aspects of process - the difference between a good writing day and a bad one is the quality of the split-second decisions you made.”

Thinking Writing Made Process Differences Decision Quality Aspect Splits Good Writing

Author:George Saunders

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

Writing Seems Easy Good Writing Deceptive Artifice

Author:Michael Arndt

“The thing I am attracted to is just good writing and stories that are based somewhat in reality.”

Writing Stories Reality Good Writing

Author:Jennifer Aniston

“Wherein we discover that many of the "rules" for good writing and good sex are the same: Keep your hand moving, lose control, and don't think.”

Thinking Writing Hands Moving Sex Loses Observation Good Writing Good Sex

Author:Natalie Goldberg

“Don’t say you were a bit confused and sort of tired and a little depressed and somewhat annoyed. Be tired. Be confused. Be depressed. Be annoyed. Don’t hedge your prose with little timidities. Good writing is lean and confident.”

Writing Littles Bits Tired Confused Prose Annoyed Good Writing Timidity

Author:William Zinsser

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

Writing Film Style Television Good Writing Great Writing

Author:Scott Speedman

“There's not a conspiracy to prevent really good writing from being found You have to have the humility to fail over and over and over.”

Writing Found Failing Humility Conspiracy Good Writing Found You

Author:Ray McKinnon

“The man of understanding can no more sit quiet and resigned while his country lets its literature decay, and lets good writing meet with contempt, than a good doctor could sit quiet and contented while some ignorant child was infecting itself with tuberculosis under the impression that it was merely eating jam tarts.”

Men Writing Children Country Literature Understanding He Man Quiet Letting Go Eating Doctors Impression Ignorant Contempt Decay Jam Good Writing Resigned Tarts Tuberculosis Good Doctors

Author:Ezra Pound

“The secret of good writing is to strip every sentence to its cleanest components.”

Writing Secret Sentences Components Good Writing Writing Well

Book:On Writing Well, 30th Anniversary Edition: An Informal Guide to Writing Nonfiction

Source: On Writing Well, 30th Anniversary Edition: An Informal Guide to Writing Nonfiction

“And when you get an eminent journal like Time magazine complaining, as it often has, that to the young writers of today life seems short on rewards and that what they write is a product of their own neuroses, in its silly way the magazine is merely stating the status quo and obvious truth. The good writing of any age has always been the product of someone's neurosis, and we'd have a mighty dull literature if all the writers that came along were a bunch of happy chuckleheads.”

“There's a sureness to good writing even when what's being written about doesn't make all that much sense. It's the sureness of the so-called seat of an accomplished horseback rider or a sailor coming about in a strong wind. The words have both muscle and grace, familiarity and surprise.”

Writing Strong Grace Written Wind Surprise Muscles Seats Accomplished Familiarity Sailor Riders Good Writing Horseback Strong Winds Horseback Riders

Author:Anne Bernays

“As an actor, I go where the good writing is. That's the bottom line.”

Writing Actors Lines Bottom Bottom Line Good Writing

Author:Glenn Close

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

Writing Creative Subjects Creative Writing Good Writing

Book:Conversations with Erskine Caldwell

Source: Conversations with Erskine Caldwell

“All good writing leaves something unexpressed.”

Writing Good Writing

Author:Christian Nestell Bovee

“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.”

Writing Humans Long Literature Brain Good Writing Human Brain Good History

Author:C. V. Wedgwood

“All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.”

Writing Water History Breaths Swimming Good Writing Good Writers Motivational Swimming Funny Swimming

Author:F. Scott Fitzgerald

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

Writing Courses Teach Talent Good Writing

Author:Peter Carey

“I think the thing that has made it possible for me to write personal songs and sing them year after year is the sensibility for good writing. Just opening your veins all over the paper is not necessarily going to be interesting. I wanted to speak to people.”

People Thinking Writing Years Made Wanted Song Speak Interesting Paper Opening Made It Sensibility Veins Good Writing

Author:Shawn Colvin

“Every actor just wants good writing.”

Want Writing Actors Good Writing

Author:Jeff Daniels

“Give me good writing, and I'll play it all day.”

Giving Writing Play Give Me Good Writing

Author:Jeff Daniels

“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.”

Writing Firsts Lasts Purpose Seeing Clouds Steady Good Writing Blur Lucidity Vagueness

Book:On Writing

Source: On Writing

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