Good Quotes

The most important thing is to read as much as you can, like I did. It will give you an understanding of what makes good writing and it will enlarge your vocabulary.

All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.

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

Good writing is like a windowpane.

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.

You have to go where the good writing is.

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

I believe that writing is derivative. I think good writing comes from good reading.

Good writing is supposed to evoke sensation in the reader - not the fact that it is raining, but the feeling of being rained upon.

Good writing excites me, and makes life worth living.

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

There is more good writing and good acting in any ten minutes of Twister than in, say, all of Citizen Kane.

Every actor just wants good writing.

Give me good writing, and I'll play it all day.

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.

Good writing gives energy, whatever it is about.

As an actor, I go where the good writing is. That's the bottom line.

I don't think you get to good writing unless you expose yourself and your feelings. Deep songs don't come from the surface; they come from the deep down. The poetry and the songs that you are suppose to write, I believe are in your heart.

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.

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.

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.

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

There's such good writing now on television and I don't see a lot of great writing on films sadly.

Well, I've always been a character actor, you know, and you always get your share of character actors who are bad guys. So it never surprises me. And if it's good writing, you can find your way into the part well enough.

The best way to become a successful writer is to read good writing, remember it, and then forget where you remember it from.

I never feel more myself than when I'm writing; I never enjoy any day more than a good writing day.

I've hung out in the writer's room a few times, but the fact is we've got such a good writing staff, I don't want to get my peanut butter fingerprints on anything.

The good writing of any age has always been the product of someone's neurosis.

I think all good writing is a struggle. To write as well as you feel you can has to be a struggle, almost by definition, because you could always improve.

I want to keep doing different things. I'd like to do a more personal, dramatic movie next, I think. But as long as it's about characters and good writing and good parts for actors, that's what's important.