{"quotes":[{"text":"Write at a pace that doesn't surpass your creative flow. Don't be hasty; don't be sloppy. Don't forfeit impressive writing for an impressive word count. Because eventually it will all have to be edited, and you'll find that it is harder to make bad writing good than to make good writing better.","author":"Richelle E. Goodrich","tags":["bad-writing","good-writing","hasty","rewriting","richelle","richelle-goodrich","sloppy","writers","writing"],"id":29667,"author_id":"Richelle+E.+Goodrich"},{"text":"And feast on the dead, I thought with a shudder. As if he could read my thoughts, he pressed a hand to my shoulder. His fingers were long and white, splaying over my arm like a waxen spider. If the gesture was meant to comfort me, it failed.","author":"Leigh Bardugo","tags":["creepy","good-writing","metaphor"],"id":37689,"author_id":"Leigh+Bardugo"},{"text":"You can't be a good writer in the States anymore because to be a good one you have to have a country where you can be poor and still eat, and still make your living standard secondary to your writing. Thoreau himself couldn't do that in the States today.","author":"Nelson Algren","tags":["bad-writing","cost-of-living","good-writing","standard-of-living","writers","writing"],"id":50484,"author_id":"Nelson+Algren"},{"text":"…After all, it isn't really difficult to write books. Especially if you either write a rotten story in good English or a good story in rotten English, which is as far as most people seem to get nowadays.","author":"Dorothy L. Sayers","tags":["bad-writing","good-story","good-writing","stories","storytelling","syntax","well-written","writers","writing"],"id":145362,"author_id":"Dorothy+L.+Sayers"},{"text":"The best of fiction, as we know, of course, doesn't tell the truth; it tales the truth.","author":"Criss Jami","tags":["accuracy","books","clever","fantasy","fiction","good-writing","homophone","honesty","lies","meaning","non-fiction","novels","parables","reading","realism","stories","tale","tell-the-truth","truth","wordplay","writing"],"id":161146,"author_id":"Criss+Jami"},{"text":"A writer needs to ingest love to be passionate. Passion is a metabolite of love, and good writing is an active metabolite of passion.","author":"Roman Payne","tags":["good-writing","love","loving","metabolite","passion","payne","roman","roman-payne","writer","writers","writers-on-writing","writing","writing-craft","writing-life"],"id":203953,"author_id":"Roman+Payne"},{"text":"The sky grows dark over the city as Janey tells me her story. Teh beast was supposed to help their community. Something that would look good in a brochure, I suppose. But instead, it cut loose, took out in to the Williamsburg night. Janey and the kids went after it , and when they finally caught up what does it do? The thing ate a hipster.","author":"Daniel José Older","tags":["good-writing","monsters"],"id":240855,"author_id":"Daniel+Jos%C3%A9+Older"},{"text":"Bad writing is more than a matter of shit syntax and faulty observation; bad writing usually arises from a stubborn refusal to tell stories about what people actually do― to face the fact, let us say, that murderers sometimes help old ladies cross the street.","author":"Stephen King","tags":["bad-writing","fiction","good-writing","writing"],"id":351897,"author_id":"Stephen+King"},{"text":"Good fiction writers have an instinctive understanding of human nature. That's what makes stories and characters captivating. Good spiritual writers share what they sincerely practice themselves.","author":"Donna Goddard","tags":["fiction-writers","fiction-writing-process","good-writing","human-nature","human-nature","spiritual-practice","spiritual","spiritual-wisdom","spiritual-writing","spirituality","stories","stories-from-the-heart","writing","writing-about-human-nature","writing-process","writing"],"id":414653,"author_id":"Donna+Goddard"},{"text":"It's not always so easy,' she said softly.'Why not? It's a part of who you are, isn't it?' he asked with all the sympathy of an asp being prodded with a stick.","author":"Page Morgan","tags":["good-writing","metaphor"],"id":475251,"author_id":"Page+Morgan"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":10,"pages":1}}