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• Sometimes a song just has to cater to whatever's goin' on. A well-written song is a song that stays true to the subject.

  Dolly Parton

  Song, Sometimes, Stay True

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• If it's a really well written villain, he probably has more layers than the archetypal good person. So that would be very attractive to an actor. No one chooses to be a villain; it's usually a reaction to something else.

  Ben Kingsley

  Would Be, Actors, Layers

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• No matter what character your play. I feel like whenever anyone is honest and whole and well-written, you're going to be able to connect to that person because we're all kinda made up of the same stuff and I think that's always one of the really powerful things about approaching each individual character and role and film.

  Ellen Page

  Powerful, Character, Thinking

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• You know that something is really well written when you have to think so little about the words that are coming out of your mouth and you're able to dwell in your own headspace to get there. It's very easy to recall and remember because it's written so well.

  Tom Weston-Jones

  Thinking, Mouths, Littles

  Source: collider.com

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• Only well-written works will descend to posterity. Fulness of knowledge, interesting facts, even useful inventions, are no pledge of immortality, for they may be employed by more skilful hands; they are outside the man; the style is the man himself.

  Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon

  Men, Hands, Interesting

  Discours sur le Style (1753)

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• Only idiots or snobs ever really thought less of 'genre books' of course. There are stupid books and there are smart books. There are well-written books and badly written books. There are fun books and boring books. All of these distinctions are vastly more important than the distinction between the literary and the non-literary.

  Stephen Marche

  Fun, Smart, Stupid

  "How Genre Fiction Became More Important Than Literary Fiction" by Stephen Marche, www.esquire.com. March 11, 2015.

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• We have more faith in a well-written romance while we are reading it than in common history. The vividness of the representations in the one case more than counterbalances the mere knowledge of the truth of facts in the other.

  William Hazlitt

  Reading, Romance, Facts

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1501, Delphi Classics

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• I daydream about things I want to happen, but none of it is more complicated, most of the time, than just really hoping that the good parts and the well-written parts are the ones that turn up on my doorstep.

  Rebecca Hall

  Want, Complicated, Daydreaming

  Source: collider.com

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• What I think of blogs is just this: Some are beautifully written and many are not. But even blogs that aren't necessarily "well" written are great for the person writing them.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Writing, Thinking, Wells

  Source: www.goodreads.com

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• I use improvisation as a writing tool to help produce material that goes into a script, but a well-crafted script shouldn't sound scripted, and oftentimes people confuse something that looks like improvisation for what is actually a very well-written script that is well-acted.

  Steve Coogan

  Writing, People, Sound

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. August 20, 2008.

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• If a film is very clever and well-written, that's what gives you freedom as a director. Part of the freedom in directing, for me, is that I'm also the camera operator. That's the place where things are less rigid, where I can adjust as I go along.

  Patrice Leconte

  Clever, Giving, Cameras

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• I love working that way, and that's sort of the way that Mark, Jay, and I have been working for years, where we start with scripts that are really solid and well-written. But once we get into the scene and we start doing the work, we definitely loosen things up.

  Steve Zissis

  Years, Way, Scripts

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

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• I knew that Sylvester Stallone's involvement would outweigh everything else from the film. I think people went into Creed expecting a boxing movie and something that superficially ties Stallone in, but Creed was really well written.

  Bun B

  Thinking, Ties, People

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• Through Heaven's Gate and Back speaks to all of us that have been abused as children. Lee Thornton's descriptions of the aftereffects of repeated trauma and a profound Near-Death Experience (NDE) are not only true but explained in a way that the reader can take in. It is rare to find a book so well written that it has both sexual abuse and an NDE under one cover. We definitely will be recommending this book to our patients.

  Charles L. Whitfield

  Children, Book, Profound

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• I do enjoy Gothic fiction or books about zombies if they are well written and I like vampires.

  Roddy Doyle

  Book, Zombie, Vampire

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• How simple the writing of literature would be if it were only necessary to write in another way what has been well written. It is because we have had such great writers in the past that a writer is driven far out past where he can go, out to where no one can help him.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Writing, Past, Simple

  Ernest Hemingway, Knut Hamsun, Hermann Hesse (1971). “Ernest Hemingway, Knut Hamsun [and] Hermann Hesse”

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• The thing with America is that... however you want to denigrate them for being crass or whatever, with a film that they like and think is well written, well-made and is popular, they actually want to work with those people and want to follow that, whereas I've had nothing coming in from the UK... nothing at all. Whether that sums up the state of the industry now, I don't know. But it's strange.

  John Michael McDonagh

  Thinking, People, Strange

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• A sitcom is the closest thing for me to doing stage because you work in front of an audience, and if it's well written it can be very satisfying.

  Nathan Lane

  Stage, Wells, Audience

  "This Is A Very Mice Story!". Sunday Tasmanian, January 4, 1998.

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• What's great about well-written material is, if you can shock with justifiable actions, that's the best.

  Bryan Cranston

  Action, Shock, Wells

  Interview with Will Harris, www.avclub.com. July 13, 2011.

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• Poetry must be as well written as prose.

  Ezra Pound

  Poetry, Wells, Prose

  Letter to Harriet Monroe, Jan. 1915

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• Anything well written with good language and clarity and honesty is worth doing. It comes out of the same tradition as Shakespeare.

  Michael Moriarty

  Honesty, Language, Clarity

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• Don't Shoot is a work of moral philosophy that reads like a crime novel - Immanuel Kant meets Joseph Wambaugh. It's a fascinating, inspiring, and wonderfully well written story of one man's quest to solve a problem no one thought could be solved: the scourge of inner city gang violence This is a vitally important work that has the potential to usher in a new era in policing.

  John Seabrook

  Philosophy, Men, Crime Novels

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• Any alphabet book for children where 'P is for Patti' Smith and 'X is for the women whose names we don't know' is something I can recommend, especially when the book is as well written, representationa lly diverse and vividly illustrated as this one.

  Francesca Lia Block

  Children, Book, Names

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• Tacit knowledge is one of the most important concepts of current scholarship in the humanities. Ambitious and important, Tacit and Explicit Knowledge is a well-written and original book.

  Robert P. Crease

  Book, Humanity, Important

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• If a poet has any obligation toward society, it is to write well. Being in the minority, he has no other choice. Failing this duty, he sinks into oblivion. Society, on the other hand, has no obligation toward the poet. A majority by definition, society thinks of itself as having other options than reading verses, no matter how well written. Its failure to do so results in its sinking to that level of locution at which society falls easy prey to a demagogue or a tyrant. This is society's own equivalent of oblivion.

  Joseph Brodsky

  Fall, Reading, Writing

  "Less Than One: Selected Essays".

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