| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 4db72bb | 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. | fiction writing good-writing | Stephen King | |
| c206911 | Good writing is true writing. If a man is making a story up it will be true in proportion to the amount of knowledge of life that he has and how conscientious he is; so that when he makes something up it is as it would truly be. | truth good-writing life-experience storytelling | Ernest Hemingway |