Great Writing Quotes - Page 5

• I try to write in a way where you care deeply what the next paragraph will be. I hear the rhythm of prose and that, to me, distinguishes great writing from ordinary writing. By the way, I don't even claim that I'm good. I claim that I value it.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Writing, Trying, Care

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• [George] Orwell's essays. It's got it all. Great writing, a worldview that I find interesting and useful, and most of it timelessly true.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Writing, Interesting, Worldview

  Source: www.avclub.com

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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.

  Andy Serkis

  Writing, People, And Love

  Source: www.denofgeek.com

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• There's so many amazing articles coming out all the time and because of the internet circulating great writing - even if the writers don't get paid enough most of the time, unfortunately - but there's never been a more amazing flow of information on all of the issues. I would love to see a revival of what we had against the war in the '60s - we could do thes

  Bonnie Raitt

  War, Writing, Issues

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• Great writing attracts great actors. It attracts money. Without a great script, you have nothing.

  Andy Garcia

  Writing, Actors, Scripts

  "Andy Garcia Talks AT MIDDLETON, the Beautiful Script, His “Chopsticks” Duet with Vera Farmiga, and Future Projects". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. February 3, 2014.

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• Blade Runner was the godfather of all these fantastic movies that occur today. What's frustrating is that we're short of really great writing and great ideas. Blade Runner was full of them.

  Ridley Scott

  Writing, Ideas, Blade Runner

  Source: editorial.rottentomatoes.com

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• There's a lot of great writing, and characters, and stories being told in television nowadays. And much more than there used to be. The opportunities to tell stories, because of the opportunities to show content. And so it's drawing actors from cinema, movie actors, actors to where there's a lot of opportunities to where you can tell stories.

  Keanu Reeves

  Writing, Character, Opportunity

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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.

  Glenn Close

  Witty, Clever, Fun

  "Glenn Close Embraces Damages". Interview with Evan Jacobs, www.movieweb.com. October 24, 2007.

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• As much as I revere great writing, and am still humbled by it, literary activities are no longer esoteric to me. When I read a great novel - something that I could never have written myself - I'm still looking at it a little bit like a technician.

  Jonathan Lethem

  Writing, Littles, Esoteric

  "Music, Influence, and "Deeply Unnecessary" Art". Interview with Ben Arthur, logger.believermag.com. March 17, 2015.

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• For me, the guitar synthesizer is a great writing instrument.

  Andy Summers

  Writing, Guitar, Synthesizers

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• There’s a need to perfect things in a writers’ room, and that can take a lot of fun out of a show sometimes. It’s a struggle. It depends on your personality. Some people love working with a writing staff. I had a great writing staff on Lucky Louie, but it sometimes felt like Congress or something.

  Louis C. K.

  Fun, Struggle, Writing

  "Writing Comedy – Interview with Louis C.K". Interview with Dan Calvisi, actfourscreenplays.com. July 16, 2010.

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• That's where everything starts, as an actor: you've gotta have great writing and great character development, and then you have really great materials to work from.

  Matt Lauria

  Writing, Character, Actors

  Source: collider.com

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• I so admire great writing done quickly, with great detail.

  Peter King

  Writing, Details, Done

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• The raw beauty of Natalia Ginzburg’s prose compels our gaze. First we look inward, with the shock of recognition inspired by all great writing, and then, inevitably, out at the shared world she evokes with such uncompromising clarity.

  Hilma Wolitzer

  Writing, Inward, Looks

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• Nothing teaches great writing like the very best books do. Yet, good teachers often help students cross that bridge, and I have to say that I had a few extraordinary English teachers in high school whom I still credit for their guidance.

  Julia Glass

  Teacher, Book, School

  "Washington Post Magazine: Real Life". Online chat, www.washingtonpost.com. July 14, 2008.

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• 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

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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.

  Ron Rash

  Philosophical, Writing, Character

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• Great writing is great writing. It's as simple as all that.

  Kate Mulgrew

  Writing, Simple

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• There's such good writing now on television and I don't see a lot of great writing on films sadly.

  Scott Speedman

  Writing, Style, Television

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

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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.

  Steven Moffat

  Art, Writing, People

  "The Man Who Revitalized 'Doctor Who' And 'Sherlock'". "Fresh Air" with David Bianculli, www.npr.org. May 3, 2012.

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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.

  Raymond Chandler

  Writing, Silence, Mind

  "A Qualified Farewell". Essay by Raymond Chandler (early 1950's), published in "The Notebooks of Raymond Chandler" edited by Frank MacShane, 1976.

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• I write less about alcohol, less and less and less. You 're an addict - so of course you write about the thing you love most. I loved alcohol the most, loved it more than anybody or anything. That's what I wrote about. And it certainly accounted for some great writing. But it accounted for two or three years of good writing - it would never account for 20 years of good writing. I would have turned into Charles Bukowski. He wrote 10,000 poems and 10 of them were great.

  Sherman Alexie

  Writing, Two, Years

  David Lehman, Sherman Alexie (2015). “The Best American Poetry 2015”, p.21, Simon and Schuster

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• It's just lovely to be involved in a movie that does go back to the basics - characters and great writing.

  Clive Owen

  Movie, Writing, Character

  "Clive Owen & Jude Law". Interview with Todd Gilchrist, www.ign.com. December 10, 2004.

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• It's hard to imagine there's a place for great writing inside a multinational conglomerate.

  Matthew Specktor

  Writing, Imagine, Multinationals

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The thing I respond to the most is just great writing, interesting characters. I like to think that there is something fun about playing a character that has a lot of authority in her own life.

  Marin Ireland

  Fun, Writing, Character

  "Checking In With Marin Ireland". Interview with Maggie Lange, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 16, 2012.

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