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Good Writing Quotes

Good writing is the hardest form of thinking. It involves the agony of turning profoundly difficult thoughts into lucid form, then forcing them into the tight-fitting uniform of language, making them visible and clear. If the writing is good, then the result seems effortless and inevitable. But when you want to say something life-changing or ineffable in a single sentence, you face both the limitations of the sentence itself and the extent of your own talent. Pat Conroy
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 stopped being fun when I discovered the difference between good writing and bad and, even more terrifying, the difference between it and true art. And after that, the whip came down. Truman Capote
Ernest Hemingway quote: "Good writing is good conversation, only more so."
Good writing is good conversation, only more so. Ernest Hemingway
Ken Kesey quote: "Good writing ain't necessarily good reading."
Good writing ain't necessarily good reading. Ken Kesey
Horace quote: "Good sense is both the first principal and the parent source..."
Good sense is both the first principal and the parent source of good writing. Horace
Good writing is remembering detail. Most people want to forget. Don't forget things that were painful or embarrassing or silly. Turn them into a story that tells the truth. Paula Danziger
Stephen King quote: "Good writing is often about letting go of fear and affectation."
Good writing is often about letting go of fear and affectation. Stephen King
Good writing takes place at intersections, at what you might call knots, at places where the society is snarled or knotted up. Margaret Atwood
Good writing does not succeed or fail on the strength of its ability to persuade. It succeeds or fails on the strength of its ability to engage you, to make you think, to give you a glimpse into someone else's head. Malcolm Gladwell
Good writing does not succeed or fail on the strength of its ability to persuede. It succeeds or fails on the strength of its ability to engage you, to make you think, to give you a glimpse into someone elses head. Malcolm Gladwell
Good writing is supposed to evoke sensation in the reader - not the fact that it is raining, but the feeling of being rained upon. E. L. Doctorow
Harold Pinter quote: "Good writing excites me, and makes life worth living."
Good writing excites me, and makes life worth living. Harold Pinter
George Orwell quote: "Good writing is like a windowpane."
Good writing is like a windowpane. George Orwell
Marilyn Hacker quote: "Good writing gives energy, whatever it is about."
Good writing gives energy, whatever it is about. Marilyn Hacker

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