Good Writing Quotes - Page 8

• Good writing of course requires talent, and no one can teach you to have talent.

  Peter Carey

  Writing, Talent, Teach

  "An Interview With Author Peter Carey". Interview with Ben Evans, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 6, 2010.

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• Creo que lo que me ha hecho posible escribir canciones personales y cantarlas año tras año es la sensibilidad para escribir bien. Abrirse las venas por todo el papel no va a ser necesariamente interesante. Yo quería hablarle a la gente.

  Shawn Colvin

  Cantar, Escribir, Pensar

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• Every actor just wants good writing.

  Jeff Daniels

  Writing, Actors, Want

  "Jeff Daniels, star of The Newsroom, on walking, talking, and not getting typecast". Interview with Will Harris, www.avclub.com. June 22, 2012.

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• Dame buena letra y la tocaré todo el día.

  Jeff Daniels

  Writing, Play, Giving

  "Jeff Daniels, star of The Newsroom, on walking, talking, and not getting typecast". Interview with Will Harris, www.avclub.com. June 22, 2012.

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• En la buena escritura no se permite ningún borrón de inexactitud, ninguna nube de vaguedad; desde la primera visión hasta la última anotación, debe haber una lucidez constante y un propósito sin concesiones.

  Eudora Welty

  Writing, Clouds, Vagueness

  Eudora Welty (2011). “On Writing”, p.50, Modern Library

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• I wish you good writing and good luck. Even if you've already done the good writing, you'll still need the good luck. It's a shark-filled lagoon out there. Cross your fingers and watch your back.

  Margaret Atwood

  Writing, Good Luck, Sharks

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• Me atrae la buena narración, la buena escritura.

  Sanaa Lathan

  Writing, Storytelling, Appeals

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• If we marvel at the artist who has written a great book, we must marvel more at those people whose lives are works of art and who don't even know it, who wouldn't believe it if they were told. However hard work good writing may be, it is easier than good living.

  Katherine Paterson

  Art, Believe, Book

  Katherine Paterson (1981). “Gates of excellence: on reading and writing books for children”, Dutton Juvenile

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• Mi escritura mejoraba cuanto más escribía y cuanto más leía buenos textos, desde Shakespeare para abajo.

  Dick Schaap

  Escribir

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• Reescribe y revisa. No tengas miedo de aprovechar lo que tienes y cortarlo en tiras ... Escribir bien significa revisar bien.

  William Strunk, Jr.

  Escribir, Aprender, Significar

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• But the thing that stands eternally in the way of really good writing is always one: the virtual impossibility of lifting to the imagination those things which lie under the direct scrutiny of the senses, close to the nose. It is this difficulty that sets a value upon all works of art and makes them a necessity. The senses witnessing what is immediately before them in detail see a finality which they cling to in despair, not knowing which way to turn. Thus this so-called natural or scientific array becomes fixed, the walking devil of modern life.

  William Carlos Williams

  Art, Lying, Writing

  William Carlos Williams (1920). “Kora in Hell: Improvisations”

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• Todo lo que quiero es un modesto lugar en La buena lectura del Sr. X, La buena escritura de la Srta. Y y esa nueva edición de Mil mejores fragmentos de prosa reciente.

  James Agate

  Reading, Writing, Missing

  James Agate (1942). “Ego 5: Again More of the Autobiography of James Agate”

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• Beauty and truth may be attributes of good writing, but if the writer deliberately aims at truth, he is likely to find that what he has hit is the didactic.

  Northrop Frye

  Writing, May, Attributes

  Northrop Frye (1996). “Collected Works of Northrop Frye: The educated imagination and other writings on critical theory 1933-1963”

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• There is a lot of catarsis that passes itself off as art or comedy and I'm kind of critical of that. I think that just because you bare your soul or underwear or private moments it doesn't , or necessarily make for entertainment, or good writing, or funny writing.

  Mindy Kaling

  Art, Writing, Thinking

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• Good writing is always new.

  A. S. Byatt

  Escribir

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• I write less about alcohol, less and less and less. You 're an addict - so of course you write about the thing you love most. I loved alcohol the most, loved it more than anybody or anything. That's what I wrote about. And it certainly accounted for some great writing. But it accounted for two or three years of good writing - it would never account for 20 years of good writing. I would have turned into Charles Bukowski. He wrote 10,000 poems and 10 of them were great.

  Sherman Alexie

  Writing, Two, Years

  David Lehman, Sherman Alexie (2015). “The Best American Poetry 2015”, p.21, Simon and Schuster

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• You have to go where the good writing is.

  Damian Lewis

  Escribir

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• Tal vez ésa sea casi la perfección de la buena escritura que es original, pero cuya sola verdad impide que el lector sospeche que lo es; y que efectúa para el conocimiento lo que la lente efectúa para el rayo de sol, cuando condensa su brillo para aumentar su fuerza.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Writing, Order, Perfection

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.9

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• Almost all good writing begins with terrible first efforts. You need to start somewhere. Start by getting something-anything-down on paper. A friend of mine says that the first draft is the down draft-you just get it down. The second draft is the up draft-you fix it up. You try to say what you have to say more accurately. And the third draft is the dental draft, where you check every tooth, to see if it's loose or cramped or decayed, or even, God help us, healthy.

  Anne Lamott

  Writing, Effort, Healthy

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• Agents and publishers only want one thing - good writing.

  Jasper Fforde

  Writing, Agents, Want

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• Really good writing, from my perspective, runs a lot like a visual on the screen. You need to create that kind of detail and have credibility with the reader, so the reader knows that you were really there, that you really experienced it, that you know the details. That comes out of seeing.

  Ann Voskamp

  Running, Writing, Perspective

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• Screenwriting is always about what people say or do, whereas good writing is about a thought process or an abstract image or an internal monologue, none of which works on screen.

  David Nicholls

  Writing, People, Abstract

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• Diría que estoy orgulloso de mi actuación en Cracker y creo que en gran parte se debe a que el guión era muy bueno. Hoy en día es muy raro encontrar un guión tan bueno, pero eso fue hace mucho tiempo.

  Boti Bliss

  Writing, Thinking, Proud

  Source: actionflickchick.com

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• Hoy en día, la mayor parte de mis interacciones con los jóvenes se centran en las clases de poesía o teatro que imparto, así que los alumnos que conozco leen a poetas contemporáneos (les encanta Willie Perdomo) y guiones (No Child, de Nilaja Sun y Twilight, de Anna Deavere Smith). Desconozco sus hábitos de lectura fuera de nuestras clases, pero creo que disfrutan con historias con las que pueden relacionarse, aprender de ellas, plantearse retos... ya sabes, la buena escritura habitual que todo lector anhela.

  Renee Watson

  Children, Believe, Reading

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• Distinguish between the work and the job title. When I was leaving school in the early 1970s, many people wanted to be journalists, carrying out investigative reporting for print newspapers. Print newspapers may not exist in twenty years. But good thinking and good writing about issues that need to be reported and investigated will always be needed; but where this happens, what it is called, and who pays for it may be quite different than could have been envisioned by the great journalists of the past.

  Howard Gardner

  Jobs, School, Writing

  Source: howardgardner.com

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