Great Writing Quotes
The best sayings about Great Writing that you can share on Instagram, Pinterest, Facebook and other social networks!
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The story I am writing exists, written in absolutely perfect fashion, some place, in the air. All I must do is find it, and copy it.
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Writing isn't about making money, getting famous, getting dates, getting laid, or making friends. In the end, it's about enriching the lives of those who will read your work, and enriching your own life, as well. It's about getting up, getting well, and getting over. Getting happy, okay? Getting happy.
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The road to Hell is paved with unbought stuffed dogs.
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People don't really have a relationship with great writing or great production or great art direction or great direction. They just sort of admire it.
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Every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works.
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A man will turn over half a library to make one book.
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I love being a writer. What I can't stand is the paperwork.
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First, find out what your hero wants, then just follow him.
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When I say work I only mean writing. Everything else is just odd jobs.
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Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor.
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The road to hell is paved with adverbs.
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We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.
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[As a screenwriter] I have a sense of exile from thought, a nostalgia of the quiet room and balanced mind. I am a writer, and there comes a time when that which I write has to belong to me, has to be written alone and in silence, with no one looking over my shoulder, no one telling me a better way to write it. It doesn't have to be great writing, it doesn't even have to be terribly good. It just has to be mine.
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Just play the moment, that's the fun of it. You just play the moment. It's great writing and very clever writing, I think it's witty. And I have those great clothes. You have a great, witty, intelligent script and you look like a million dollars, because we have a great costumer, and it's a pretty good place to begin.
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Working with people you adore and love. There's just a sense, all the way through all of the movies [Planet of Apes], that you're very rarely in a position where you have great material that you're passionate about and a big audience who love it, and the detail and nuance, and the exquisiteness of the fantastic actors and director with great writing.
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There are books full of great writing that don't have very good stories. Read sometimes for the story... don't be like the book-snobs who won't do that. Read sometimes for the words--the language. Don't be like the play-it-safers who won't do that. But when you find a book that has both a good story and good words, treasure that book.
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When your story is ready for rewrite, cut it to the bone. Get rid of every ounce of excess fat. This is going to hurt; revising a story down to the bare essentials is always a little like murdering children, but it must be done.
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The most beautiful things are those that madness prompts and reason writes.
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Great is the art of beginning, but greater is the art of ending.
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I was opposed to doing TV for a long time because I thought the quality of writing wasn't very strong, as opposed to film, but there's been a shift in term of the quality of scripts. HBO has attracted a tremendous amount of great writing talent.
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Follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.
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Writing and rewriting are a constant search for what it is one is saying.
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Like Flannery O'Connor, McCorkle's genius is to give us both philosophical speculation and a riveting narrative filled with unforgettable characters. Great writing, poignancy, humor, wisdom-all are in abundance here. Jill McCorkle is one of the South's greatest writers; she is also one of America's.
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Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.
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Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.
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The scariest moment is always just before you start.
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Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
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Write. Rewrite. When not writing or rewriting, read. I know of no shortcuts.
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Writing's about getting up, getting well, and getting over. Getting happy, okay? Getting happy.
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There is a mystery in all great writing and that mystery does not dissect out. It continues and is always valid.
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