Quotes About Good Writing Skills

#1. It goes without saying that a good Catholic novel should be good craftsmanship, good writing skills. The creative person must always be engaged in the long labor of perfecting the tools of his art. Yet the work itself need not be explicitly evangelical in its themes and plots.

Michael O'Brien

#2. Like good reading skills, good writing skills require immersion and imaginative engagement.

Sara Sheridan

#3. Author' is just a fancy word for Schizophrenic people with good writing skills and cash.

Testy McTesterson

#4. All the elements of good writing depend on the writer's skill in choosing one word instead of another.

Francine Prose

#5. One thing that really appeals to me is this idea of music being a living thing that has an evolution that, in a way, enables the artist to sell a process rather than a piece of product.

Peter Gabriel

#6. The bigger the dam of patience, the worse the flood when the dam breaks.

Austin O'Malley

#7. I wanted to be an up-to-date king. But I didn't have much time.

Edward VIII

#8. Nature wants children to be children before men ... Childhood has its own seeing, thinking and feeling.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#9. I have met bright students in computer science who have never seen the source code of a large program. They may be good at writing small programs, but they can't begin to learn the different skills of writing large ones if they can't see how others have done it.

Richard Stallman

#10. The most important people is to pick people who like to write software and who are good at ... good developers like working with each other. And they ... they reinforce each other's skills.

Bill Gates

#11. We can read a good spiritual book in search of information or in search of God. We will find only what we're looking for.

Ron Brackin

#12. Wyoming, to Annie, was represented by a blank, bleak space in her imagination. It was a place she could hide. The worst that could happen would be that she would sleep with Daniel and then get eaten by a wolf. She could live with that.

Kevin Wilson

#13. Writing is like that. You have to have some basic creative spark, and then, if you have that, I feel like you can learn the production side of it. You can learn how to be a good producer. And I guess it does take a certain balance of those two skills in your head to be a successful showrunner.

Ronald D. Moore

#14. Writing requires discipline, detailed thinking, good communication skills, a plan of action, clear vision, and a passion for people. CMT Stibbe

C.M.T. Stibbe

#15. Only bugs can truly appreciate the beauty of flowers.

Dov Davidoff

#16. People talk about escapism as though it's something nasty but escapism is wonderful!

Margaret Forster

#17. As journalism dies, I kind of feel like I want some skills besides writing. I'd like to be able to write movies or host TV shows or whatever. Things that I might actually not inherently like quite as much, but are interesting and fun things to do. A good backup plan.

Joel Stein

#18. I regard Christian and Jewish fundamentalism, and all other forms of fundamentalism, as the enemies of God - and I hope you'll quote me on that.

Arthur Hertzberg

#19. I have never pretended to be a great writer. I am totally immodest about being a great reporter and a good news writer. I write fast and I write accurately, nearly as accurately as anybody can be, and that's my skill.

Walter Cronkite