Well Written Quotes

• A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

  "Jean Paul Friedrich Richter" (1827)

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• There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.

  Oscar Wilde

  Book, Reading, Writing

  The Picture of Dorian Gray preface (1891)

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• Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.

  Oscar Wilde

  Book, Writing, Reading Literature

  The Picture of Dorian Gray preface (1891)

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• I think I did pretty well, considering I started out with nothing but a bunch of blank paper.

  Steve Martin

  Funny, Writing, Humor

  FaceBook post by Steve Martin from Feb 29, 2012

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• If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Success

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• but for my own part, if a book is well written, I always find it too short.

  Jane Austen

  Inspirational, Motivational, Book

  Jane Austen (2016). “Juvenilia -”, p.19, Jane Austen

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• Mary is a very well-written typical eldest child in that she puts her own needs at the forefront... She's not as inclined to conciliate or placate. Cora is fascinated by Mary

  Jessica Fellowes

  Children, Typical, Needs

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• A love affair is like a short story--it has a beginning, a middle, and an end. The beginning was easy, the middle might drag, invaded by commonplace, but the end, instead of being decisive and well knit with that element of revelatory surprise as a well-written story should be, it usually dissipated in a succession of messy and humiliating anticlimaxes.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Stories, Elements, Might

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• Let us never underestimate the power of a well-written letter.

  Karen Joy Fowler

  Letters, Underestimate, Wells

  "The Jane Austen Book Club". www.imdb.com. 2007.

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• In every well-written play the battle rages between the primary powers of Good and Evil, and it is this battle which constitutes the life impulse of the play, its driving force, and is basic to all plot structures...In any true piece of art...the beginning and the end are, or should be, polar in principle. All the main qualities of the first section should transform themselves into their opposites in the last section.

  Michael Chekhov

  Art, Opposites, Play

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• Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.

  Oscar Wilde

  Beautiful, Book, Mean

  The Picture of Dorian Gray preface (1891)

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• Party of Five" won a Golden Globe, it was a well-written television series.

  Neve Campbell

  Party, Television, Golden

  "Neve Campbell lives out a dream with "The Company". Interview with Ben Nuckols, www.today.com. January 8, 2004.

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• There is an enormous redundancy in every well-written book. With a well-written book I only read the right-hand page and allow my mind to work on the left-hand page. With a poorly written book I read every word.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Book, Hands, Mind

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• There are greater depths and obscurities, greater intricacies and perplexities, in an elaborate and well-written piece of nonsense, than in the most abstruse and profound tract of school divinity.

  Joseph Addison

  School, Profound, Depth

  Joseph Addison (1853). “The Works of Joseph Addison: Including the Whole Contents of Bp. Hurd's Edition, with Letters and Other Pieces Not Found in Any Previous Collection; and Macaulay's Essay on His Life and Works”, p.624

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• Even if the script's well written there's something about the life of an improvisation that resonates better than a written word, sometimes.

  John Travolta

  Scripts, Sometimes, Wells

  "Wild Hogs - John Travolta interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• No matter what character your play. I feel like whenever anyone is honest and whole and well-written, you're going to be able to connect to that person because we're all kinda made up of the same stuff and I think that's always one of the really powerful things about approaching each individual character and role and film.

  Ellen Page

  Powerful, Character, Thinking

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• Great stories, well written and heartfelt. Prisoner of SouthernRock is an engaging and entertaining celebration of southern music, musicians and characters.

  Chuck Leavell

  Character, Southern, Heartfelt

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• There's always these giant baffling books, like 'The Da Vinci Code.' People say it's not as well written as 'Midnight's Children.' Why aren't people reading 'Midnight's Children?' Nobody knows why these phenomenons happen but they're great.

  Denise Mina

  Children, Book, Reading

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• If a film is very clever and well-written, that's what gives you freedom as a director.

  Patrice Leconte

  Clever, Giving, Directors

  "Arms Wide Open: Patrice Leconte Talks About 'Intimate Strangers'". www.indiewire.com. July 30, 2004.

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• I like films that are well-written and concise and with not a lot of room for improvisation.

  Patrice Leconte

  Rooms, Film, Wells

  "Arms Wide Open: Patrice Leconte Talks About 'Intimate Strangers'". IndieWire Interview, www.indiewire.com. July 30, 2004.

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• Mostly I work really unconsciously, and I think if the scenes are really well written, which they are, and if I just throw myself into it, I don't really think about it.

  Elizabeth Reaser

  Thinking, Scene, Wells

  "Elizabeth Reaser is Still Learning". Interview with Meryl Cates, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 07, 2012.

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• I respond very well to well-written material and women who have had an effect on society, something tragic or monumental has happened to them.

  Samantha Morton

  Tragic, Wells, Materials

  "Not afraid of the dark" by Chrissy Iley, www.theguardian.com. September 25, 2007.

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• If I feel like it's a well-written script and if it speaks to me, it's something I want to do. I usually rely on my instincts when it comes to a script.

  Michael Ealy

  Want, Scripts, Speak

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• I have no objection to well-written romance, but I'd read enough of it to know that that's not what I had written. I also knew that if it was sold as romance I'd never be reviewed by the 'New York Times' or any other literarily respectable newspaper - which is basically true, although the 'Washington Post' did get round to me eventually.

  Diana Gabaldon

  New York, Romance, Enough

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• I feel like if a film is well-written, then the character's arc is complete. There really is very little room to expand on that afterwards.

  Cary Elwes

  Character, Littles, Rooms

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