Good Quotes

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.

The secret of good writing is to say an old thing in a new way or to say a new thing in an old way.

All the sudden high-impact stress can really take a toll on your body. So if you still want to be active and get in a good workout, go to a yoga class or pilates class, or get in some strength and conditioning.

Running through airports with pounds of luggage - that's a good workout.

It gives the listener a good workout, to listen to the music, the same as it does us to play it.

We had training camp for a week, and we used the actual military drills of that period. We didn't have to work out much after hours, because going up and down hills all day was a good workout in itself.

My New Year's resolution is to stick to a good workout plan that will keep me healthy and happy.

I'm probably the least flexible athlete you'll find. When it comes to yoga, I can't get in the positions and I can't hold them. You have to be pretty flexible to do it. Once you get certain positions, you have to have the core strength to hold those positions. It's a pretty good workout.

A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends.

It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer.

Every good writer or filmmaker has something eating at them, right? That they can't quite get off their back . And so your job is to make your audience care about your obsessions.

I want to be an honest man and a good writer.

A good writer is basically a story teller, not a scholar or a redeemer of mankind.

What I always wanted to get seen as was as a good actor, when it was the acting I was doing. When I'm writing, I want to try to be seen as a good writer.

Nowadays I'm not even sure if newspapers take into account whether a person is a good writer.

I think my job is to try and be as honest as I can with what is in my mind and how I feel - I think that's what you're supposed to do, if you're a good writer. So I try to do that. I know I do that. I do do that.

A good writer cannot avoid having social consciousness. I don't mean this about small pieces of writing, but about a big book. If it's a big book, there has to be more than one undertow.

When you combine something to say with the skill to say it properly, then you've got a good writer.

A good writer is not, per se, a good book critic. No more so than a good drunk is automatically a good bartender.

Disney was not a good animator, he didn't draw well at all, but he was always a great idea man, and a good writer.

I'll never be a good writer, and no chance of being a good actor.

Although I write screenplays, I don't think I'm a very good writer.

A good writer is always a people watcher.

I'm not a very good writer, but I'm an excellent rewriter.

Good writers define reality; bad ones merely restate it. A good writer turns fact into truth; a bad writer will, more often than not, accomplish the opposite.

You cannot teach creativity - how to become a good writer. But you can help a young writer discover within himself what kind of writer he would like to be.

Hatred is gained as much by good works as by evil.

The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.

In dreams the truth is learned that all good works are done in the absence of a caress.

Three conditions are necessary for Penance: contrition, which is sorrow for sin, together with a purpose of amendment; confession of sins without any omission; and satisfaction by means of good works.