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To do six to 10 episodes of high-quality writing, and then be able to go direct my own things, and do a movie, if it comes along, sure. I just want to act and do good work. -- Jason Momoa
All prizes have a role, if they are run with integrity and with a clear focus on reading and quality writing. I don't think any of them is necessary, but they all play an incredibly important role in building a body of literature, in introducing new authors to new readers, and extending reading. -- Kate Mosse
The flattery is nice, but awards don't add up to writing quality songs. -- Chantal Kreviazuk
Writing has always had that tactile quality for me. It's a physical experience. -- Paul Auster
Ultimately, it's about the quality of the writing whatever style you are writing. -- Tibor Fischer
The correctness and quality of what you write do not matter; the act of writing does. -- Natalie Goldberg
Writing fiction is... an endless and always defeated effort to capture some quality of life without killing it. -- Rose Wilder Lane
Writing anything as an expert is really poisonous to the writing process, because you lose the quality of discovery. -- Siddhartha Mukherjee
Rage is the only quality which has kept me, or anybody I have ever studied, writing columns for newspapers. -- Jimmy Breslin
I've loved doing 'E.R.' for the quality of the writing and the great people I get to work with. -- Julie Bowen
I ain't no author, man... my writing skills are not of 'New York Times' best-seller quality, trust and believe it ain't. My vocabulary ain't. -- Steve Harvey
Writing is one of the few activities where quantity will inevitably make quality. The more you write, the better you're going to get at it. -- Harlan Coben
If you are having trouble with a story, it may not be an issue with the quality of the writing - there may just be too much of it. -- Michael Winter
With fiction, I tend to get to my desk and start writing. Poetry I write in my head, often while walking, so that my poems have an organic quality, hopefully. -- John Burnside
The quality of the writing, really. Simple as that. Beautiful words. It's very nice as a singer to do great songs, which have wonderful lyrics and strong feelings underneath the song. -- Bryan Ferry
My first TV job was on an episode of 'Hannah Montana'... Since then, I've been fortunate to end up on shows that are just such a high quality, where the writing and material is incredible. -- Alison Brie
I have a deep and ongoing love of Iceland, particular the landscape, and when writing 'Burial Rites,' I was constantly trying to see whether I could distill its extraordinary and ineffable qualities into a kind of poetry. -- Hannah Kent
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
There's good movies and there's bad movies. The genres are never dead, it's just about how to apply them and articulate them and execute them - the story, the quality of the writing, the acting, the design elements, the directorial execution - all these things make it what it is. -- Andy Garcia
The quality of writing attracts me to films, also who the other actors are, who the director is, where it's being shot. Any or all of those things. But if the writing is really appalling, then the money had better be really good. Sometimes you say yes to something you wouldn't always do because you need the money. -- Charles Dance
One strange quality of writing about political campaigns is that it's a little like writing about a baseball game inning by inning. We presume we can say something about the final result from the state of play a third of the way through. You can when a game is a colossal blowout, but you can't when it's close. -- John Podhoretz
I was writing novels at eight. It was a science fiction epic, which went by the unimprovable title of 'Another Kind of Warrior.' I'd write it beginning to end, but when I'd finished it, I was another year older. The quality of writing and thought changed radically, so I'd start it again. I re-wrote that same book until I was 16. -- Neil Cross
The most important quality any piece of writing can have is doneness. -- Fred Barnes
Writing has always had a tactile quality for me. It's a physical experience. -- Paul Auster
Emphasizing and rewarding length over quality results in worse writing and more reader abandonment. -- Marco Arment
The quality of that 'who I am', is what I hope comes out in the writing. -- Quentin S. Crisp
The world is a hellish place, and bad writing is destroying the quality of our suffering. -- Tom Waits
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Bad writing is bad not just because the language is humdrum, but the quality of the observation is so poor. -- Christopher Isherwood
I started writing In Darkness out of a frustration of the quality of roles that I was reading in scripts for women. -- Natalie Dormer
To George Gershwin, on refusinghim as a pupil: You would only lose the spontaneous quality of your melody, and end by writing bad Ravel. -- Maurice Ravel
Rage is ... This is Breslin's full quote: Rage is the only quality which has kept me, or anybody I have ever studied, writing columns for newspapers -- Jimmy Breslin
Often in literary criticism, writers are told that a character isn't likable, as if a character's likability is directly proportional to the quality of a novel's writing. -- Roxane Gay
Men of quality are in the wrong to undervalue, as they often do, the practise of a fair and quick hand in writing; for it is no immaterial accomplishment. -- Quintilian
The only way to raise the quality of writing in school is to create, share, and celebrate the specific criteria for that quality with everybody on a regular basis. -- Barry Lane
I've often heard academics disparage non-academic writing in terms that suggest it could be a negative in the tenure process, irrespective of the quality of academic work under review. -- Daniel Drezner

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