Browsing Topic Best Good Writing Quotes

It’s okay to disagree with the thoughts or opinions expressed by other people. That doesn’t give you the right to deny any sense they might make. Nor does it give you a right to accuse someone of poorly expressing their beliefs just because you don’t like what they are saying. Learn to recognize good writing when you read it, even if it means overcoming your pride and opening your mind beyond what is comfortable.

Comedy is more difficult than drama. I think it’s really difficult to make someone laugh because people have very different comedic sensibilities. In drama, you can get away with being a great actor and surrounded by great actors and having good writing. But in comedy you have to listen and you have to perform with a certain rhythm, because if you don’t, it’s like playing a wrong note in the orchestra and you can hear the off key and it will fall flat and you won’t get that instant response.

Love is the main generator of all good writing… Love, passion, compassion, are all welded together.

Writers aren’t people exactly. Or, if they’re any good, they’re a whole lot of people trying so hard to be one person.

As an actor, I go where the good writing is. That’s the bottom line.

There’s a sureness to good writing even when what’s being written about doesn’t make all that much sense. It’s the sureness of the so-called seat of an accomplished horseback rider or a sailor coming about in a strong wind. The words have both muscle and grace, familiarity and surprise.

An essential element for good writing is a good ear: One must listen to the sound of one’s own prose.

Bad writing is not easier than good writing. It’s just as hard to make a toilet seat as it is a castle window. Only the view is different.

I never feel more myself than when I’m writing; I never enjoy any day more than a good writing day.

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.

Good writing is about finding and exploiting anecdotes that resonate with the reader. In storytelling, it’s OK if you only make one point, as long as it’s a good one.

The very first thing I tell my new students on the first day of a workshop is that good writing is about telling the truth. We are a species that needs and wants to understand who we are. Sheep lice do not seem to share this longing, which is one reason they write so very little. But we do. We have so much we want to say and figure out.

I’m curious about writing in the age of online publishing. Because nobody cares about good writing online.

My gratitude for good writing is unbounded; I’m grateful for it the way I’m grateful for the ocean.

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.

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.

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.

Good writing is about telling the truth.

Almost all good writing begins with terrible first efforts. You need to start somewhere.

I suppose with any good writing and interesting characters, you can have that awfully overused word […] – a jouuuuuurney.

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.

Ready writing makes not good writing, but good writing brings on ready writing.

A couple of pieces of advice for the kids who are serious about writing are: first of all, to read everything you can get your hands on so you can become familiar with different forms of writing: fiction, non-fiction, poetry, journalism. That’s very important. And also keep a journal. Not so much, because it’s good writing practice. Although it is, but more because it’s a wonderful source of story starters.

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.

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

Good writing is almost the concomitant of good history. Literature and history were joined long since by the powers which shaped the human brain; we cannot put them asunder.

I don’t think that writing, real writing, has much to do with affirming belief–if anything it causes rifts and gaps in belief which make belief more complex and more textured, more real. Good writing unsettles, destroys both the author and the reader. From my perspective, there always has to be a tension between the writer and the monolithic elements of the culture, such as religion.

It may be observed of good writing, as of good blood, that it is much easier to say what it is composed of than to compose it.

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

Sometimes with certain writing, you feel like you’ve got to be literal, hit it hard on the nose, just to get the point across. Good writing is more subversive I think – or good scenes. They are about one thing on the page but you can make it about something completely different.

Perhaps that is nearly the perfection of good writing which is original, but whose truth alone prevents the reader from suspecting that it is so; and which effects that for knowledge which the lens effects for the sunbeam, when it condenses its brightness in order to increase its force.

You have to go where the good writing is.

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

All good writing leaves something unexpressed.

My writing improved the more I wrote – and the more I read good writing, from Shakespeare on down.