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

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

Writing is a marvelous adventure and very labor-intensive: those words run away and try to escape. They are very difficult to capture.

Good writing is good writing, but that doesn't mean you can't orchestrate it or tweak it.

Writing comes more easily if you have something to say.

Good writing is deceptive in that it hides its own artifice - it makes it seem easy.

Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing and learn as you go.

I am baffled by good writing.

Good authors, too, who once knew better words now only use four-letter words writing prose... anything goes.