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“The screenplay is so well-written in a scruffy, fanzine way that you want to rub noses in it - the noses of those zombie writers who take 'screenwriting' classes that teach them the formulas for 'hit films.'”

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Book:Roger Ebert's Video Companion, 1997 Edition

Source: Roger Ebert's Video Companion, 1997 Edition

“Look at the Coen brothers. All their minor characters are as interesting as their protagonists. If the smaller characters are well-written, the whole world of the film becomes enriched. It's not the size of the thing, but the detail.”

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Author:Brendan Gleeson

“I do enjoy Gothic fiction or books about zombies if they are well written and I like vampires.”

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Author:Roddy Doyle

“How simple the writing of literature would be if it were only necessary to write in another way what has been well written. It is because we have had such great writers in the past that a writer is driven far out past where he can go, out to where no one can help him.”

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Book:Ernest Hemingway, Knut Hamsun [and] Hermann Hesse

Source: Ernest Hemingway, Knut Hamsun [and] Hermann Hesse

“Most agents hate prologues. Just make the first chapter relevant and well written.”

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Author:Andrea Brown

“Just why I sent it to the publishers would be hard to say, but when I had finished it I felt that it was literature, because it is real and because it was well written. And I know that the world wants such things.”

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Author:Mary MacLane

“You see a lot of good ideas or well-written scripts that are bad ideas.”

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Author:John McTiernan

“The BBC is very much in thrall to all this techno cross-fertilisation, in much the same way that print journalists are now encouraged to blog. To the point where there is an emerging breed of sub-editors who take perfectly well-written and punctuated original copy and rewrite it so that it resembles a text message written by a 14-year-old under the influence of Bacardi Breezers.”

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Author:Kathryn Flett

“David Frankfurter's valuable, well-written study takes us to the far reaches of demonology. In documenting the harm done by labeling others evil, he poses a challenge to those of us who believe, however regretfully, in the necessity of the concept.”

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Author:Robert Jay Lifton

“SHADOW KNIGHT'S MATE is a compelling story, extremely well-written and alarmingly plausible. Jay Brandon does for politics what Dan Brown did for religion.”

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Author:Sharyn McCrumb

“Good English, well spoken and well written will open more doors than a college degree... Bad English will slam doors you don't even know exist.”

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Author:William Raspberry

“Every well-written book is a light for me. When you write, you use other writers and their books as guides in the wilderness.”

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Author:Kate DiCamillo

“I love a lot of the New York bands, but Patti Smith stands out. I just read 'Just Kids' and it's an inspirational, well-written account of an emerging New York artist in the late seventies.”

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Author:James Iha

“I know what my limitations are as an actor, but my strength is putting myself into a well-written part. When I get in trouble is when I have to fix it, or when I have to carry it on personality.”

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Author:George Clooney

“Alas! It is well written, The road to eminence lies through the cheap and exceedingly uninviting eating-houses.”

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Book:The Wallet of Kai Lung

Source: The Wallet of Kai Lung

“If something is well-written, it has a chance to be good and if it's not well-written, it will not be good. It could even become popular, but it won't be good.”

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Author:Bryan Cranston

“The greatest multiplex in the universe is inside your mind, and the only ticket you need is a good, well-written novel.”

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Author:Carlos Ruiz Zafon

“If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.”

“The dramatic importance of climate changes to the world’s future has been dangerously underestimated by many, often because we have been lulled by modern technology into thinking we have conquered nature. This well-written book points out in clear language that the climatic threat could be as awesome as any we might face, and that massive world-wide actions to hedge against that threat deserve immediate consideration.”

“A sitcom is the closest thing for me to doing stage because you work in front of an audience, and if it's well written it can be very satisfying.”

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Author:Nathan Lane

“What's great about well-written material is, if you can shock with justifiable actions, that's the best.”

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Author:Bryan Cranston

“Poetry must be as well written as prose.”

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Author:Ezra Pound

“Anything well written with good language and clarity and honesty is worth doing. It comes out of the same tradition as Shakespeare.”

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Author:Michael Moriarty

“Don't Shoot is a work of moral philosophy that reads like a crime novel - Immanuel Kant meets Joseph Wambaugh. It's a fascinating, inspiring, and wonderfully well written story of one man's quest to solve a problem no one thought could be solved: the scourge of inner city gang violence This is a vitally important work that has the potential to usher in a new era in policing.”

“Any alphabet book for children where 'P is for Patti' Smith and 'X is for the women whose names we don't know' is something I can recommend, especially when the book is as well written, representationa lly diverse and vividly illustrated as this one.”

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Author:Francesca Lia Block

“Tacit knowledge is one of the most important concepts of current scholarship in the humanities. Ambitious and important, Tacit and Explicit Knowledge is a well-written and original book.”

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Author:Robert P. Crease

“If a poet has any obligation toward society, it is to write well. Being in the minority, he has no other choice. Failing this duty, he sinks into oblivion. Society, on the other hand, has no obligation toward the poet. A majority by definition, society thinks of itself as having other options than reading verses, no matter how well written. Its failure to do so results in its sinking to that level of locution at which society falls easy prey to a demagogue or a tyrant. This is society's own equivalent of oblivion.”

“One never tires of what is well written, style is life! It is the very blood of thought!”

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Author:Gustave Flaubert

“Most books reviews aren't very well-written. They tend to be more about the reviewer than the book.”

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Author:Tibor Fischer

“When you see something that is well-written, the actors can get behind it.”

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Author:Julia Barr

“Party of Five" won a Golden Globe, it was a well-written television series.”

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Author:Neve Campbell

“I feel like if a film is well-written, then the character's arc is complete. There really is very little room to expand on that afterwards.”

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Author:Cary Elwes

“I have no objection to well-written romance, but I'd read enough of it to know that that's not what I had written. I also knew that if it was sold as romance I'd never be reviewed by the 'New York Times' or any other literarily respectable newspaper - which is basically true, although the 'Washington Post' did get round to me eventually.”

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Author:Diana Gabaldon

“If I feel like it's a well-written script and if it speaks to me, it's something I want to do. I usually rely on my instincts when it comes to a script.”

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Author:Michael Ealy

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