Great Writing Quotes - Page 6

• For no. 1, it's great writing, super writing. The second thing is that it's great chemistry with all the actors. We just all got along from the very start. Very get-go, we all got along. We just - it was just like we were all meant to be there together.

  Reba McEntire

  Writing, Together, Actors

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• All you ever really want is a great character and great writing. As an actor, that's the juiciest sandwich you could ever ask for.

  Jill Scott

  Writing, Character, Sandwiches

  "Jill Scott Talks FRINGE, Why She Wanted the Role, Hopes for Her Character, Being Part of the Final Season, Working with the Cast and Future Guest Spots". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. December 8, 2012.

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• There is a mystery in all great writing and that mystery does not dissect out. It continues and is always valid.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Writing, Doe, Mystery

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• I was opposed to doing TV for a long time because I thought the quality of writing wasn't very strong, as opposed to film, but there's been a shift in term of the quality of scripts. HBO has attracted a tremendous amount of great writing talent.

  Peter Dinklage

  Strong, Writing, Hbo

  "'Game of Thrones': Peter Dinklage on Returning for Season 2 and Those Tyrion Fan Videos" by Michael O'Connell, www.hollywoodreporter.com. December 12, 2011.

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• There is no such thing as great writing - there is only great re-writing!

  Ernest Hemingway

  Writing

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• Great writing can be done in biography, history, art.

  V. S. Naipaul

  Art, Writing, Done

  "A singular writer". Interview with Maya Jaggi, www.theguardian.com. September 7, 2001.

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• I haven't ever found any great writing on that wonderful and often unappreciated art form, the insult.

  Dick Cavett

  Art, Writing, Insult

  Dick Cavett (2010). “Talk Show: Confrontations, Pointed Commentary, and Off-Screen Secrets”, p.192, Macmillan

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• There is no great writing, only great rewriting.

  Louis D. Brandeis

  Writing, Rewriting, Great Writers

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