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Good Writing Quotes (page 2)

Julia Cameron quote: "Just as a good rain clears the air, a good writing day clears..."
Just as a good rain clears the air, a good writing day clears the psyche. Julia Cameron
I am aware of many things being quite as important as good writing and good reading; but in all things it is wiser to go directly to the quiddity, to the text, to the source, to the essence—and only then evolve whatever theories may tempt the philosopher, or the historian, or merely please the spirit of the day. Readers are born free and ought to remain free. Vladimir Nabokov
I want to keep doing different things. I'd like to do a more personal, dramatic movie next, I think. But as long as it's about characters and good writing and good parts for actors, that's what's important. Tony Goldwyn
Orson Scott Card quote: "There is more good writing and good acting in any ten minutes..."
There is more good writing and good acting in any ten minutes of Twister than in, say, all of Citizen Kane. Orson Scott Card
The good writing of any age has always been the product of someone's neurosis, and we'd have mighty dull literature if all the writers that came along were a happy bunch of chuckleheads. William Styron
No blur of inexactness, no cloud of vagueness, is allowable in good writing; from the first seeing to the last putting down, there must be steady lucidity and uncompromise of purpose. Eudora Welty
Anne Lamott quote: "Almost all good writing begins with terrible first efforts...."
Almost all good writing begins with terrible first efforts. You need to start somewhere. Anne Lamott
Kay Cannon was a woman I’d known from the Chicago improv world. A beautiful, strong midwestern gal who had played lots of sports and run track in college, Kay had submitted a good writing sample, but I was more impressed by her athlete’s approach to the world. She has a can-do attitude, a willingness to learn through practice, and she was comfortable being coached. Her success at the show is a testament to why all parents should make their daughters pursue team sports instead of pageants. Not... Tina Fey
A young writer is easily tempted by the allusive and ethereal and ironic and reflective, but the declarative is at the bottom of most good writing. Garrison Keillor
To present a whole world that doesn’t exist and make it seem real, we have to more or less pretend we’re polymaths. That’s just the act of all good writing. William Gibson
Books help us understand who we are and how we are to behave. They show us what community and friendship mean/ they show us how to live and die. They are full of all the things that you don't get in real life - wonderful, lyrical language, for instance, right off the bat. And quality of attention: we may notice amazing details during the course of a day but we rarely let ourselves stop and really pay attention. An author makes you notice, makes you pay attention, and this is a great gift.... Anne Lamott
If the communication is perfect, the words have life, and that is all there is to good writing, putting down on the paper words which dance and weep and make love and fight and kiss and perform miracles. Gertrude Stein
Almost all good writing begins with terrible first efforts. You need to start somewhere. Start by getting something—anything—down on paper. What I’ve learned to do when I sit down to work on a shitty first draft is to quiet the voices in my head. Anne Lamott
Anne Lamott quote: "My gratitude for good writing is unbounded; I’m grateful for..."
My gratitude for good writing is unbounded; I’m grateful for it the way I’m grateful for the ocean. Anne Lamott
Richard Harding Davis quote: "The secret of good writing is to say an old thing in a new way..."
The secret of good writing is to say an old thing in a new way or a new thing in an old way. Richard Harding Davis

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