Good Writing Quotes - Page 10

• The thing I am attracted to is just good writing and stories that are based somewhat in reality.

  Jennifer Aniston

  Writing, Reality, Stories

  Interview with Jeff Otto, www.ign.com. January 14, 2004.

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• 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

  Life Changing, Writing, Thinking

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• Of course, the fact that Dostoevsky can tell a juicy story isn't enough to make him great. If it were, Judith Krantz and John Grisham would be great fiction writers, and by any but the most commercial standards they're not even very good.

  David Foster Wallace

  Writing, Would Be, Fiction

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• I started writing while I was a little boy. Maybe it's because I was reading a lot of books I admired, and thought that I would like to write something like that someday. Also, my love for good writing pushed me.

  Naguib Mahfouz

  Book, Reading, Writing

  FaceBook post by Naguib Mahfouz from Oct 14, 2012

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• Good writing isn’t a science. It’s an art, and the horizon is infinite. You can always get better.

  David Foster Wallace

  Art, Writing, Get Better

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• I always tell my writing students that every good piece of writing begins with both a mystery and a love story. And that every single sentence must be a poem. And that economy is the key to all good writing. And that every character has to have a secret.

  Silas House

  Writing, Character, Keys

  FaceBook post by Silas House from Mar 01, 2013

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• 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

  Art, Fun, Writing

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