#good writing

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

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I think the thing that has made it possible for me to write personal songs and sing them year after year is the sensibility for good writing. Just opening your veins all over the paper is not necessarily going to be interesting. I wanted to speak to people. ↗

— Shawn Colvin

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Good writing will bring you to places you don't even expect sometimes. ↗

— James Gandolfini

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The studios don't seem to foster good writing. They're not so interested in that, but they're more interested in what worked most recently. They're definitely very serious about making money, and that's not a wrong thing, but you don't have to make money the same way all the time. ↗

— Bill Murray

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I think finally good writing gets out there, and people like it, and bad writing doesn't. Well, no. Bad writing does get out there 'cause some people like it. ↗

— Robert B. Parker

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Because good writing in a TV cartoon is so rare, I think the animation on The Simpsons is often overlooked. ↗

— Matt Groening

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Most of my work consisted of crossing out. Crossing out was the secret of all good writing. ↗

— Mark Haddon

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Good sense is both the first principal and the parent source of good writing. ↗

— Horace

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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

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Good writing is like a windowpane. ↗

— George Orwell

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