Quotes of: Good-writing Keyword

I might not write fiction in the literary sense. But I write very well. My characters are good. My dialogue is good. And my stories are really involving.

Joy Fielding

A good journalist is not the one that writes what people say, but the one that writes what he is supposed to write.

Todor Zhivkov

This book has nothing to do with cats. Or mice. Or self-motivation. This book is 100% 50% finished. But don’t worry, I finished the good half. But don’t be mistaken—the good half isn’t good at all. In fact, it’s remarkably terrible. It’s ...

Who Moved My Choose?: An Amazing Way to Deal With Change by Deciding to Let Indecision Into Your Life

Any room where you feel a good vibe is a good place to write.

Nicole Appleton

Everybody has good and bad forces working with them, against them, and within them.

Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

Every good poem asks a question, and every good poet asks every question.

The Poet's Companion: A Guide To The Pleasures Of Writing Poetry

Good writing takes place at intersections, at what you might call knots, at places where the society is snarled or knotted up.

Margaret Atwood

I usually write when I'm in a great place. When I'm depressed, I don't usually write. So I take all of when I'm depressed and throw it into when I'm feeling good. Weird, I guess.

Del Shannon

Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than a great author. There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read.

Ross Perot

The more I write the more I learn about writing. It is easy to say what looks good or sound good on paper until you experience it for yourself.

Jeanette Michelle

Turn around and believe that the good news that we are loved is better than we ever dared hope, and that to believe in that good news, to live out of it and toward it, to be in love with that good news, is of all glad things in this world the gladdes...

The Clown in the Belfry: Writings on Faith and Fiction

I think as the world changes, we have to keep up. We have to note what is happening, and I think writing has always had a powerful corrective influence and possibility. We have to write about what's good, and we also have to write about parts of our ...

Lee Smith

I just sort of try to be a good person; try to write music that lifts people and makes me feel good to sing.

Carole King

I write to believe in goodness.

Red Haircrow

I have to write 100 songs before you write the first good one.

Taylor Swift

We should write because it is human nature to write. Writing claims our world. It makes it directly and specifically our own. We should write because humans are spiritual beings and writing is a powerful form of prayer and meditation, connecting us b...

The Right to Write: An Invitation and Initiation into the Writing Life

Writers are people who write. By and large, they are not happy people. They're not good at relationships. Often they're drunks. And writing—good writing—does not get easier and easier with practice. It gets harder and harder—so that eventually ...

About Writing: Seven Essays, Four Letters, and Five Interviews

Writing is good, thinking is better. Cleverness is good, patience is better.

Herman Hesse

Writing a song is actually quite easy. Writing a good one is very, very difficult.

Joe Elliott

Early on, it's good to develop the ability to write. Learning to write is a useful exercise, even if what you're writing about is not that relevant.

Walter Gilbert

It's fun for me to try to write concise, compact things. It's a very good exercise for me. And I think it's important to try to do different things - change what I write about, and also the way I write. Otherwise, I'd just be repeating myself, which ...

William T. Vollmann