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Good Writing Quotes

1.
There is no such thing as good writing, only good rewriting.
Robert Graves

Authors on Good Writing Quotes: Sylvester Stallone Louis D. Brandeis William Zinsser Leonardo da Vinci Dick Schaap Katy Lederer Ralph Waldo Emerson Mark Haddon Christian Nestell Bovee Ken Macrorie A. S. Byatt Truman Capote John Travolta Anne Lamott James Gandolfini Damian Lewis Roald Dahl Martin Freeman Anthony Minghella George Orwell Ben Jonson Robert Graves Meg Wolitzer Anne Enright Guy Kawasaki Carrie Coon
2.
Good writing is essentially rewriting.
Roald Dahl

3.
Good writing comes from good talent.
Leonardo da Vinci

4.
Good writing is good writing, and I'm so happy when I read it.
Meg Wolitzer

5.
Good writing will bring you to places you don't even expect sometimes.
James Gandolfini

6.
Good writing is like a windowpane.
George Orwell

7.
There is no good writing; there is only good rewriting.
Louis D. Brandeis

8.
In good writing, words become one with things.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

9.
Only bad writers think that their work is really good.
Anne Enright

10.
Good writing is rewriting.
Truman Capote

11.
All good writing leaves something unexpressed.
Christian Nestell Bovee

12.
Most of my work consisted of crossing out. Crossing out was the secret of all good writing.
Mark Haddon

13.
Good writing is about telling the truth.
Anne Lamott

14.
My writing improved the more I wrote - and the more I read good writing, from Shakespeare on down.
Dick Schaap

15.
Good writing is formed partly through plan and partly through accident.
Ken Macrorie

16.
Like with anything, good writing suggest itself pretty strongly.
Martin Freeman

17.
Disorganizatio n is the enemy of good writing.
Guy Kawasaki

18.
Clichés are what good writing is all about. Because our lives are basically clichés.
Sylvester Stallone

19.
Good writing is lean and confident.
William Zinsser

20.
I'm more interested in the writing than in the content per se (good writing can be about wallpaper and I'll devour it).
Katy Lederer

21.
Good writing is always new.
A. S. Byatt

22.
Good writing is good writing, but that doesn't mean you can't orchestrate it or tweak it.
John Travolta

23.
You have to go where the good writing is.
Damian Lewis

24.
I never feel more myself than when I’m writing; I never enjoy any day more than a good writing day.
Anthony Minghella

25.
Ready writing makes not good writing, but good writing brings on ready writing.
Ben Jonson

26.
What's great about good writing is that it feels like life, so it's not hard to relate to her circumstances.
Carrie Coon