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“I wish you good writing and good luck. Even if you've already done the good writing, you'll still need the good luck. It's a shark-filled lagoon out there. Cross your fingers and watch your back.”

Ifs Needs Writing Stills Done Wish Watches Crosses Luck Filled Fingers Good Luck Wish You Sharks Good Writing Lagoons

Author:Margaret Atwood

“Good storytelling appeals to me - good writing.”

Writing Storytelling Appeals Good Writing Good Storytelling

Author:Sanaa Lathan

“If we marvel at the artist who has written a great book, we must marvel more at those people whose lives are works of art and who don't even know it, who wouldn't believe it if they were told. However hard work good writing may be, it is easier than good living.”

People Ifs Knows Writing Believe May Art Book Hard Artist Written Hard Work Easier Works Of Art Good Writing Great Book Good Living

Book:Gates of excellence: on reading and writing books for children

Source: Gates of excellence: on reading and writing books for children

“My writing improved the more I wrote - and the more I read good writing, from Shakespeare on down.”

Writing Good Writing

Author:Dick Schaap

“Rewrite and revise. Do not be afraid to seize what you have and cut it to ribbons ... Good writing means good revising.”

Writing Mean Learning Cutting Programming Good Writing Ribbons Revising

Author:William Strunk, Jr.

“But the thing that stands eternally in the way of really good writing is always one: the virtual impossibility of lifting to the imagination those things which lie under the direct scrutiny of the senses, close to the nose. It is this difficulty that sets a value upon all works of art and makes them a necessity. The senses witnessing what is immediately before them in detail see a finality which they cling to in despair, not knowing which way to turn. Thus this so-called natural or scientific array becomes fixed, the walking devil of modern life.”

Source: Kora in Hell: Improvisations

“All I want is a modest place in Mr X's Good Reading, Miss Y's Good Writing, and that new edition of One Thousand Best Bits of Recent Prose.”

Want Writing Reading Bits Missing Thousand Prose Modest Good Writing Good Reading

Book:Ego 5: Again More of the Autobiography of James Agate

Source: Ego 5: Again More of the Autobiography of James Agate

“Beauty and truth may be attributes of good writing, but if the writer deliberately aims at truth, he is likely to find that what he has hit is the didactic.”

Ifs Writing May Aim Attributes Good Writing Didactic

Book:Collected Works of Northrop Frye: The educated imagination and other writings on critical theory 1933-1963

Source: Collected Works of Northrop Frye: The educated imagination and other writings on critical theory 1933-1963

“Good writing will bring you to places you don't even expect sometimes.”

Writing Sometimes Good Writing

Author:James Gandolfini

“Most of my stuff is just a series of false leads. I'll approach a story as a subject and then make a whole bunch of different runs at the lead. They're all good writing but they don't connect. So I end up having to string leads together.”

Writing Different Ends Whole Stories Running Together Stuff Subjects Approach Series Bunch Strings Good Writing

Book:Ancient Gonzo Wisdom

Source: Ancient Gonzo Wisdom

“Ready writing makes not good writing, but good writing brings on ready writing.”

Writing Ready Good Writing

Author:Ben Jonson

“Always care for the writing part first. Every good film project starts with good writing. If you have a good script, everything else follows. Writing is crucial.”

Ifs Writing Firsts Care Film Projects Very Good Scripts Crucial Good Writing Good Films

Author:Giovanna Cau

“Good writers hate bad writing but hating bad writing doesn’t make you good. Writing badly does.”

Writing Doe Hate Good Writing Good Writers Bad Writing

Author:Dan Harmon