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  • It takes a lot of bad writing to get to a little good writing.

  • Avoid theatrical flourishes - the phrases that sound so damned good that they stand up and beg to be recognized as "good writing," and therefore must be struck from the text.

    Writing   Sound   Phrases  
  • I think the benefit of being a writer is that I'm looking for the subtext on the page, because all good writing has subtext. And as a writer, you look at the big scope of things, the big story, rather than just your individual story line, because I think it's important to know what you're in and how you fit into it.

    Source: www.esquire.com
  • 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.

  • Every actor just wants good writing.

    Writing   Actors   Want  
    "Jeff Daniels, star of The Newsroom, on walking, talking, and not getting typecast". Interview with Will Harris, www.avclub.com. June 22, 2012.
  • It was a dark and stormy night. Suddenly a scream pierced the air'. . . . Good writing takes enormous concentration.

    Writing   Dark   Night  
  • All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel that all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you: the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse and sorrow, the people and the places and how the weather was. If you can get so that you can give that to people, then you are a writer.

    Truth   Book   Reading  
    Esquire, Dec. 1934
  • People do not deserve to have good writing, they are so pleased with bad.

    "Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks: 1841-1843".
  • I don't want to speak too disparagingly of my generation (actually I do, we had a chance to change the world and opted for the Home Shopping Network instead), but there was a view among the student writers I knew at that time that good writing came spontaneously, in an uprush of feeling that had to be caught at once; when you were building that all-important stairway to heaven, you couldn't just stand around with your hammer in your hand.

    Home   Writing   Views  
    "On Writing". Book by Stephen King, 1999.
  • Nothing frustrates me more than someone who reads something of mine or anyone else's and says, angrily, 'I don't buy it.' Why are they angry? Good writing does not succeed or fail on the strength of its ability to persuade. It succeeds or fails on the strength of its ability to engage you, to make you think, to give you a glimpse into someone else's head—even if in the end you conclude that someone else's head is not a place you'd really like to be.

  • Anecdotes don't make good stories. Generally I dig down underneath them so far that the story that finally comes out is not what people thought their anecdotes were about.

    FaceBook post by Alice Munro from Sep 17, 2011
  • 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.

    "Confucius to Cummings: An Anthology of Poetry".
  • The secret of good writing is to say an old thing in a new way or to say a new thing in an old way.

  • I Need a Good Book I need a good story. I need a good book. The kind that explodes Off the shelf. I need some good writing, Alive and exciting, To contemplate all by myself. I need a good novel, I need a good read. I probably need Two or three. I need a good tale Of love and betrayal Or perhaps an adventure at sea. I need a good saga. I need a good yarn. A momentous and mightily Or slight one. But with thousands and thousands And thousands of books, I need someone to tell me The right one. -John Lithgow

    Betrayal   Book   Writing  
  • I'm curious about writing in the age of online publishing. Because nobody cares about good writing online.

    Writing   Age   Care  
    Source: therumpus.net
  • Give me good writing, and I'll play it all day.

    Writing   Play   Giving  
    "Jeff Daniels, star of The Newsroom, on walking, talking, and not getting typecast". Interview with Will Harris, www.avclub.com. June 22, 2012.
  • 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   Long   Brain  
  • There is no royal path to good writing; and such paths as exist do not lead through neat critical gardens, various as they are, but through the jungles of self, the world, and of craft.

    Writing   Garden   Self  
  • That is as true for fiction or non-fiction. The writer has to really know their subject. It is really important to remember that the readers are a lot smarter than the writer. Also, good writing has to do with rewriting. You will never get it right the first time. So you rewrite and rewrite again until you get it right. Until you, and the reader, will be able to visualize what you're writing about.

  • I don't think you get to good writing unless you expose yourself and your feelings.

  • Part of what makes for good writing is an ear for what we would call the poetical. Poetry itself is another thing and it seems to me to be the most difficult writing - that those people are the best writers and they lead the way for everyone else and their writing is frighteningly great.

    Writing   People   Ears  
    Source: www.guernicamag.com
  • To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme.

    Book   Writing   Fleas  
    Moby Dick ch. 104 (1851)
  • Love is the main generator of all good writing... Love, passion, compassion, are all welded together.

    Carson McCullers (2005). “The Mortgaged Heart: Selected Writings”, p.281, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • Clichés are what good writing is all about. Because our lives are basically clichés.

    "New Again: Sylvester Stallone". Interview with Pat Hackett, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 1985.
  • 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.

    Book   Writing   Ideas  
    Source: therumpus.net
  • Good writing is formed partly through plan and partly through accident.

  • 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.

  • 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.

    Northrop Frye (1996). “Collected Works of Northrop Frye: The educated imagination and other writings on critical theory 1933-1963”
  • Good writing is rewriting.

  • Hypertext makes a virtue out of lack of organization, allowing ideas and thoughts to be juxtaposed at will. [...] The advent of hypertext is apt to make writing much more difficult, not easier. Good writing, that is.

    "The Design of Everyday Things". Book by Don Norman, ch. 7, pp. 212 - 213., 1988.
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