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For me, the guitar synthesizer is a great writing instrument. -- Andy Summers
Great writing is great writing. It's as simple as all that. -- Kate Mulgrew
With great writing, there is great clarity. -- David Costabile
There is no great writing, only great rewriting. -- Louis D. Brandeis
Great writing can be done in biography, history, art. -- V. S. Naipaul
I so admire great writing done quickly, with great detail. -- Peter King
There is no such thing as great writing - there is only great re-writing! -- Ernest Hemingway
I haven't ever found any great writing on that wonderful and often unappreciated art form, the insult. -- Dick Cavett
There's such good writing now on television and I don't see a lot of great writing on films sadly. -- Scott Speedman
It's just lovely to be involved in a movie that does go back to the basics - characters and great writing. -- Clive Owen
There is a mystery in all great writing and that mystery does not dissect out. It continues and is always valid. -- Ernest Hemingway
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
People don't really have a relationship with great writing or great production or great art direction or great direction. They just sort of admire it. -- Steven Moffat
That's where everything starts, as an actor: you've gotta have great writing and great character development, and then you have really great materials to work from. -- Matt Lauria
Blade Runner was the godfather of all these fantastic movies that occur today. What's frustrating is that we're short of really great writing and great ideas. Blade Runner was full of them. -- Ridley Scott
The thing I respond to the most is just great writing, interesting characters. I like to think that there is something fun about playing a character that has a lot of authority in her own life. -- Marin Ireland
You can have good writing, but a great actor will make it feel and sound like great writing. You can have great writing, and mediocre actors will make it feel mediocre. Without the actors, you have nothing. -- Denis Leary
Nothing teaches great writing like the very best books do. Yet, good teachers often help students cross that bridge, and I have to say that I had a few extraordinary English teachers in high school whom I still credit for their guidance. -- Julia Glass
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
As much as I revere great writing, and am still humbled by it, literary activities are no longer esoteric to me. When I read a great novel - something that I could never have written myself - I'm still looking at it a little bit like a technician. -- Jonathan Lethem
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
There's a need to perfect things in a writers' room, and that can take a lot of fun out of a show sometimes. It's a struggle. It depends on your personality. Some people love working with a writing staff. I had a great writing staff on Lucky Louie, but it sometimes felt like Congress or something. -- Louis C. K.
There's a lot of great writing, and characters, and stories being told in television nowadays. And much more than there used to be. The opportunities to tell stories, because of the opportunities to show content. And so it's drawing actors from cinema, movie actors, actors to where there's a lot of opportunities to where you can tell stories. -- Keanu Reeves
Just play the moment, that's the fun of it. You just play the moment. It's great writing and very clever writing, I think it's witty. And I have those great clothes. You have a great, witty, intelligent script and you look like a million dollars, because we have a great costumer, and it's a pretty good place to begin. -- Glenn Close
There are books full of great writing that don't have very good stories. Read sometimes for the story... don't be like the book-snobs who won't do that. Read sometimes for the words--the language. Don't be like the play-it-safers who won't do that. But when you find a book that has both a good story and good words, treasure that book. -- Stephen King
There is no great writing, only great rewriting. -- Louis D. Brandeis
I feel like there's a lot of great writing on television. -- Henry Ian Cusick
It's hard to imagine there's a place for great writing inside a multinational conglomerate. -- Matthew Specktor
I'm personally attracted to great writing - that's what turns me on the most. -- Michael Mando
One of the key secrets of great writing is knowing where to start and when to stop. -- Chloe Thurlow
I love great writing. I like interesting characters. I like to work with people who push me to be better, to elevate my game. -- Julie Ann Emery
I loved 'Everybody Loves Raymond' because I like Ray and I thought it was beautifully cast, I thought it was great writing. I thought Patricia Heaton was wonderful. -- Bob Newhart
There was a lot of great writing couples, but I try to do it all myself. And it was practically impossible, but I still managed to be ahead of my time. -- Jackie DeShannon
The pleasure from acting comes from having great writing to work with. If it's well written and the character is interesting, then, as an actor, that's the raw material I need. -- Aasif Mandvi
The raw beauty of Natalia Ginzburg's prose compels our gaze. First we look inward, with the shock of recognition inspired by all great writing, and then, inevitably, out at the shared world she evokes with such uncompromising clarity. -- Hilma Wolitzer
It ratified a theory of mine that great writing could sneak up on you, master of a thousand disguises: prodigal kinsman, messenger boy, class clown, commander of artillery, altar boy, lace maker, exiled king, peacemaker, or moon goddess. -- Pat Conroy
Working on 'NYPD Blue' and '24', those two series, I did full runs on those. It's great work, but everything has to align. The producers have to want you; the network has to want you; there has to be great writing; and it's not as easy as it may appear to the outsiders to make all those things align. -- Ricky Schroder
In my time since moving to the United States, I've found that there is a dearth of great writing for black people. There are stories that depict us in a way that isn't cliched or niche, and that a white person, a Chinese person, an Indian person can watch and relate to. Those are the stories I want to be a part of telling. -- David Oyelowo
You become a great writer by writing. -- Peter Thiel
Writing is a great love of mine. -- Micky Dolenz
I get a great high from writing. -- Walter Hill
Writing's a great skill, but thinking's a better one. -- Meg Rosoff
I always knew writing a novel was a great thing. -- James Salter
I love reading; it's a great way to avoid writing. -- Tony Kushner
Fiction writing is great. You can make up almost anything. -- Ivana Trump
I'm a great believer in the experiential theory of writing. -- Kate Grenville
Writing has become my great joy - I simply love it. -- Dawn French
On the Internet, everyone is writing. There is a great flowering of writing. -- James Salter
Great writing attracts great actors. It attracts money. Without a great script, you have nothing. -- Andy Garcia
I think by writing about a place with great specificity, you manage to make it universal. -- Bonnie Jo Campbell
Writing a great script - not just a good one, but a great one - is almost an impossible task. -- Michael Arndt
I'm not writing great literature. I'm writing commercial fiction for people to enjoy the stories and to like the characters. -- Kathy Reichs
Like Flannery O'Connor, McCorkle's genius is to give us both philosophical speculation and a riveting narrative filled with unforgettable characters. Great writing, poignancy, humor, wisdom-all are in abundance here. Jill McCorkle is one of the South's greatest writers; she is also one of America's. -- Ron Rash
Writing is the great invention of the world. -- Abraham Lincoln
The great art of writing is knowing when to stop. -- Josh Billings
A great performance like Lady Macbeth may be forgotten. Writing endures. -- Susan Strasberg
A great deal of living must go to a very little writing. -- Frances Ridley Havergal
What's the trick to writing a great female character? Make her human. -- Nicole Holofcener
Life is a great Book. We are writing the history of our time. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Stephen King once told me he liked my writing. And that was great. -- Nelson DeMille
I loathe writing. On the other hand I'm a great believer in money. -- S. J. Perelman
It does feel great to be writing, but the process is sometimes excruciating. -- Carrie Brownstein
Any great character is the combination of a brilliant actor and the right writing. -- Brad Falchuk
A great many people now reading and writing would be better employed keeping rabbits. -- Edith Sitwell
The great pleasure for me in writing short stories is the fierce, elegant challenge. -- Amy Bloom
When something can be read without effort, great effort has gone into its writing. -- Enrique Jardiel Poncela
Writing is an affair of yearning for great voyages and hauling on frayed ropes. -- Israel Shenker
A divine great spirit put awe-words on my mind; my sacred-duty is the writing. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
I have some great stories and I will get around to writing a book. -- Sally Kirkland
For me, writing essays, prose and fiction is a great way to be self-indulgent. -- Diablo Cody
The writing is so great on TV now; it's such a pleasure to watch. -- Rose Byrne
The great thing about writing compared to life is getting to tie things up. -- Kate Atkinson
Writing has to have a great deal of certainty and self-assurance, but it's not arrogant. -- Jeanette Winterson
The truth is, writing is this: hard and boring and occasionally great but usually not. -- Amy Poehler
My favorite piece of technical writing: Assembly of Japanese bicycle require great peace of mind. -- Robert M. Pirsig
The great art of writing is the art of making people real to themselves with words. -- Logan Pearsall Smith
I feel like writing music is a great chance to create something that extends beyond yourself. -- Thomston
I love writing with Adam Lambert. He's really funny and very fun, he's a great friend. -- Bonnie McKee
Some writing and production projects will be a great way to spend my elderly rock years. -- Geddy Lee
Gil Thorpe is a great diversion and is to book writing as poetry is to prose. -- Jerry B. Jenkins
I am a great procrastinator. When the writing is going really well, the laundry piles up. -- Dana Spiotta
I have a great many shortcomings, but writing for something on time has never bothered me. -- Andre Previn
You'll learn that the key to a great book is editing-grindin g, buffing, and polishing-not writing. -- Guy Kawasaki
There's always pressure, a great deal of pressure, when writing, since my first books were so successful. -- Nicholas Sparks
The whole process of writing a novel is having this great, beautiful idea and then spoiling it. -- Diane Johnson
The multitude of books is a great evil. There is no limit to this fever for writing. -- Martin Luther
The great thing about writing is, if you don't like the world, we'll create a different one. -- Richard Bach
I have a great many opinions about writing, but I'm afraid that all of them are unprintable -- Alfred Lansing
The great thing about writing: Stay with it ... ultimately you teach yourself something very important about yourself. -- Bernard Malamud
The four great motives for writing prose are sheer egoism, esthetic enthusiasm, historical impulse, and political purpose. -- George Orwell
That's one of the great thing about writing is that you get to be in someone's head. -- Lauren Conrad
I love writing and directing because it's great therapy. Every project I've done, there's been a personal connection. -- Gina Prince-Bythewood
I've always had standards about writing well. There is art in this business. There is potentially great art. -- Gay Talese
Packs a Huge Emotional Punch! Graceful Writing, Great Acting, Exquisite Direction, Suspense, Profound Subject Matter and It Rocks! -- Rex Reed
Writing requires a great deal of skill, just like painting does. People don't want to learn those skills. -- John Milius
The writing of headline is one of the great journalistic arts. They either conceal or reveal am interest -- Claude C. Hopkins
To me, writing is a considered act. It's something which is a great labor of thought and consideration. -- Paul Theroux
IF YOU PRETEND THE CHARACTERS CANT SPEAK, AND WRITE A SILENT MOVIE, YOU WILL BE WRITING GREAT DRAMA. -- David Mamet
However great a man's natural talent may be, the act of writing cannot be learned all at once. -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
I see no reason to spend your life writing poems unless your goal is to write great poems. -- Donald Hall
If I'm writing something and I'm not feeling mischievous, then I know it's not going to be great. -- Elizabeth Meriwether
Being an editor has been a source of great satisfaction, but writing is the thing I truly love. -- Bill Keller
It's not like I'm not writing great music anymore, it's just that I want to take it another level. -- Drake
Realism isn't something most people associate with the fantasy genre, yet it's an essential element of great fantasy writing. -- Lynn Flewelling
When you're writing for a TV show, what's great is that you always know what actor you're writing to. -- Michael Brandt
When I am writing a novel I try not to read great prose stylists into which I will fall. -- Frederick Busch
Without a great man writing and directing for me, I realised I was a mediocre movie star at best. -- Diane Keaton
When I'm in heavy-duty writing mode, there's something great about reading a series. Soothing, but not distracting too much. -- Lauren Willig
I think writing is such a great talent, and if I was better, I would love to be a writer. -- Shiloh Fernandez
Writing is a great comfort to people like me, who are unsure of themselves and have trouble expressing themselves properly. -- Agatha Christie
I've always been an all around creative person. Song writing and writing are great ways for me to express myself. -- Manika
I enjoyed singing, I loved song writing, I loved recording. All those things that involves with creating music was great. -- Ben E. King
Writing is something that's great because you get to write every thought that's on your mind; you take your time. -- Kendra Wilkinson
Writing gave me a second chance - not to change things, but to savor them. That is a great gift. -- Doris McCarthy
The research. It is always the best part of writing. And, of course, it is the great excuse to travel. -- Michael Scott
I feel like some of the best talent is on TV right now, with the writing, acting and great directors. -- Christina Ricci
As a writer, I always tend to take the liberty and the great artistic luxury of a composite form of writing. -- Dwight Yoakam
No one for a moment can pretend that printing is so great a discovery as writing, or algebra as a language. -- Benjamin Disraeli
I've loved doing 'E.R.' for the quality of the writing and the great people I get to work with. -- Julie Bowen
I teach a non-fiction writing class at New York University, and one of my great pleasures is deciding on the syllabus. -- Susan Orlean

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