Quotes About Writing

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Good storytelling appeals to me - good writing.

Some of my favorite movies are action movies. You want something good to say. That comes from good writing. But writing is not a skill I possess, unfortunately.

My parents are both really, really funny, and my little sister is a really good painter, and my other sister is a really good writer.

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.

Good writing is good conversation, only more so.

I'm not a very good writer. I'm working at it.

The same common sense which makes an author write good things, makes him dread they are not good enough to deserve reading.

I would not be interested in writing if I didn't feel that what I wrote was an act of good citizenship or an attempt, at any rate, to be a good citizen.

I wouldn't be a very good writer if someone hadn't taught me how to read.

Good writing is difficult no matter what the reader's age-and children deserve the best.

All I needed was a steady table and a typewriter...a marble-topped bedroom washstand table made a good place; the dining-room table between meals was also suitable.

I made commercials for corporations like Volkswagen and Coca-Cola, but I was always the one to write them, too, which was a very good exercise, because I learned to tell little stories.

You can't be a good person when you're writing and a bad person to your husband or a bad friend.

Everything takes me forever. It's all lurch, flail. I hope that is good news to you writers.

I think it must be very hard to be one of the new young writers who are urged to put themselves forward when it may be the last thing on earth they'd be good at

I'm not very good at creating worlds. I prefer to write about the world as it is.

I enjoyed writing for someone elses voice, but I wasnt very good at it.

I never feel more myself than when I'm writing; I never enjoy any day more than a good writing day.

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

All good writers are sensitive to clichés and endeavor to avoid them

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.

We can never know that a piece of writing is bad unless we have begun by trying to read it as if it was very good and ended by discovering that we were paying the author an undeserved compliment.

It was a dark and stormy night. Suddenly a scream pierced the air'. . . . Good writing takes enormous concentration.