Quotes About Writing

The reason I collect good ideas is because plots themselves are very difficult indeed to come by.

I've always thought that writing isn't really that hard. It's having a good idea that's hard.

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.

For such kind of borrowing as this, if it be not bettered by the borrowers, among good authors is accounted Plagiarè.

When I sit down to write a novel, I am exploring my own relationship with God, with the struggle between good and evil, my own purpose.

Good acting is all in the writing. If it isn't on the page, then it really won't make any difference. You cannot act on force of personality alone.

I used to be able to write five pages a day, every day, no problem. Now a good day is five or four pages, and that's from 9:30 A.M. until 6 P.M.

Good writing is about telling the truth.

How long does it take to write a good book? All of the years that you've lived.

If you're hooked on the physical act of writing, there's a good chance of your hanging in there long enough to say what you were born to say.

You don't have to be a good person to be a good writer--history shows it's better if you're not--but you have to understand your badness.

It may be observed of good writing, as of good blood, that it is much easier to say what it is composed of than to compose it.

Being a good writer doesn't make you a good reporter, it takes hustle.

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

Good writers have two things in common: they prefer to be understood rather than admired; and they do not write for knowing and over-acute readers.

Nobody ever got started on a career as a writer by exercising good judgment, and no one ever will, either, so the sooner you break the habit of relying on yours, the faster you will advance.

Disorganizatio n is the enemy of good writing.

Usually people who do bad things make good writers.I did a lot of bad things, which is why my novels are interesting.

A good writer always works at the impossible.

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

I attribute my good fortune to the simple fact that I have always tried to write straight from my own heart to the hearts of others.

Like with anything, good writing suggest itself pretty strongly.

Anybody can direct, but there are only eleven good writers.

I'm not a very good communicator, so maybe that's why I write about talking.