Good Writing Quotes - Page 6

• Agents and publishers only want one thing - good writing.

  Jasper Fforde

  Writing, Agents, Want

  5 Copy quote

• Really good writing, from my perspective, runs a lot like a visual on the screen. You need to create that kind of detail and have credibility with the reader, so the reader knows that you were really there, that you really experienced it, that you know the details. That comes out of seeing.

  Ann Voskamp

  Running, Writing, Perspective

  4 Copy quote

• Screenwriting is always about what people say or do, whereas good writing is about a thought process or an abstract image or an internal monologue, none of which works on screen.

  David Nicholls

  Writing, People, Abstract

  8 Copy quote

• Just as a good rain clears the air, a good writing day clears the psyche.

  Julia Cameron

  Rain, Writing, Air

  Julia Cameron (1999). “The Right to Write: An Invitation and Initiation into the Writing Life”, p.15, Penguin

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Good writing is good writing. In many ways, it’s the audience and their expectations that define a genre. A reader of literary fiction expects the writing to illuminate the human condition, some aspect of our world and our role in it. A reader of genre fiction likes that, too, as long as it doesn’t get in the way of the story.

  Rosemary Clement-Moore

  Writing, Our World, Long

  5 Copy quote

• The written word is weak. Many people prefer life to it. Life gets your blood going, & it smells good. Writing is mere writing, literature is mere. It appeals only to the subtlest senses—the imagination’s vision, & the imagination’s hearing—& the moral sense, & the intellect. This writing that you do, that so thrills you, that so rocks & exhilarates you, as if you were dancing next to the band, is barely audible to anyone else.

  Annie Dillard

  Writing, Blood, Smell

  4 Copy quote

• Good writing is always new.

  A. S. Byatt

  Writing

  4 Copy quote

• As an actor, my main focus is finding good writing and attacking a good role.

  Amanda Peet

  Writing, Focus, Roles

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• The studios don't seem to foster good writing. They're not so interested in that, but they're more interested in what worked most recently. They're definitely very serious about making money, and that's not a wrong thing, but you don't have to make money the same way all the time.

  Bill Murray

  Writing, Way, Serious

  8 Copy quote

• I'm more interested in the writing than in the content per se (good writing can be about wallpaper and I'll devour it).

  Katy Lederer

  Writing

  Source: www.identitytheory.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• It's been reinforced to me, and it's a little cliche, but I've learned that you can't make a movie that even works, much less that's good, without really good writing and really good acting. That lesson has led me to not be distracted, so much, by the other stuff going on in filmmaking and to focus on the essence of a story, and the words and the events and the way that those are interpreted by the actors. That philosophy has taken me to a place that I really like.

  Ben Affleck

  Philosophy, Taken, Writing

  Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 8, 2012.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• With fiction, it could be about anything. It just has to be good writing, like Maria Semple's "Where'd You Go, Bernadette," which I read recently. I want to forget I have a book in my hand.

  Cheryl Strayed

  Book, Writing, Hands

  Interview with Amy Sutherland, www.bostonglobe.com. March 2, 2013.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• I would say that I am proud of my performance from Cracker and I think a lot of that was due to the writing was just so good. It's so rare that you get such good writing these days but it was awhile ago.

  Boti Bliss

  Writing, Thinking, Proud

  Source: actionflickchick.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• These days, most of my interactions with young people are centered on the poetry or theater classes I teach, so the students I know are reading contemporary poets (they love Willie Perdomo) and scripts (No Child, by Nilaja Sun and Twilight by Anna Deavere Smith). I don't know their reading habits outside of our class, but I believe that they enjoy stories that they can relate to, learn from, be challenged by - you know, the usual good writing that every reader craves.

  Renee Watson

  Children, Believe, Reading

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Distinguish between the work and the job title. When I was leaving school in the early 1970s, many people wanted to be journalists, carrying out investigative reporting for print newspapers. Print newspapers may not exist in twenty years. But good thinking and good writing about issues that need to be reported and investigated will always be needed; but where this happens, what it is called, and who pays for it may be quite different than could have been envisioned by the great journalists of the past.

  Howard Gardner

  Jobs, School, Writing

  Source: howardgardner.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• A sustained engagement with the world, a sense of how it was and how it ought to be, and what has been lost, is imperative to good writing - I just don't know how you can be a serious writer without it.

  Pankaj Mishra

  Writing, Engagement, World

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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.

  Tony Kushner

  Writing, People, Ears

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• What's great about good writing is that it feels like life, so it's not hard to relate to her circumstances.

  Carrie Coon

  Writing, Circumstances

  Source: collider.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• In an age of malice and bad faith on many sides, I reread White or Thurber or Mitchell and am reminded again that good writing is done, as I said in my elegy for Salinger, with an active eye and ear and an ardent heart, and in no other way.

  Adam Gopnik

  Writing, Heart, Eye

  Source: www.slate.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• There's a perception that good writing is writing which runs smoothly. But smooth-running prose can work against what you're trying to express in a novel.

  Katie Kitamura

  Running, Writing, Perception

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I would have done anything. I just really love the Duplass brothers. I was at a place where I was desperate for good writing. It wasn't the part that attracted me to it; it was just to be able to work with them. And the fact that she's this kind of, like, loose cannon and this kind of desperate 40-year-old is just the icing on the cake.

  Amanda Peet

  Brother, Writing, Years

  "Amanda Peet and Steve Zissis discuss what the second season holds for Togetherness". Interview with Gwen Ihnat, www.avclub.com. February 21, 2016.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• When you recognize good writing and you're lucky enough to get it, like with Lost, that's what I follow.

  Nestor Carbonell

  Writing, Lucky, Enough

  "Nestor Carbonell and Henry Ian Cusick Interview LOST". Interview with Sara Wayland, collider.com. May 17, 2010.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Good writing, and this is especially important in a subject such as economics, must also involve the reader in the matter at hand. It is not enough to explain. The images that are in the mind of the writer must be made to reappear in the mind of the reader, and it is the absence of this ability that causes much economic writing to be condemned, quite properly, as abstract.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Writing, Hands, Mind

  4 Copy quote

• You can have good writing, but a great actor will make it feel and sound like great writing. You can have great writing, and mediocre actors will make it feel mediocre. Without the actors, you have nothing.

  Denis Leary

  Writing, Sound, Actors

  4 Copy quote

• I believe that writing is derivative. I think good writing comes from good reading.

  Charles Kuralt

  Reading, Believe, Writing

  7 Copy quote