Russell T Davies Quotes

Although there is no substitute for merit in writing, clarity comes closest to being one.

Like with anything, good writing suggest itself pretty strongly.

The secret of all good writing is sound judgment.

I think what's really hard is making sense and making what you write clear and smooth-flowing.

Ultimately, the first, best step in getting your work noticed is to write good work. If people don't engage in your writing, no amount of serialization or free downloads is going to matter. You have to write something worth reading, and often it takes time to get at that level.

Mainly I love working on good writing.

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

By writing quickly we are not brought to write well, but by writing well we are brought to write quickly.

Many writers profess great exactness in punctuation who never yet made a point.

From writing rapidly it does not result that one writes well, but from writing well it results that one writes rapidly.

Nature's chief masterpiece is writing well.

read widely, not in order to copy someone else's style, but to learn to appreciate and recognize good writing and to see how the best writers have achieved their result. Poor writing is, unfortunately, infectious and should be avoided.

I think that as you learn more about writing you learn to be direct.

Learn to write well, or not to write at all.

Good writers hate bad writing but hating bad writing doesn’t make you good. Writing badly does.

Writing is a great love of mine.

A person who can write a long letter with ease, cannot write ill.

Good sense is both the first principal and the parent source of good writing.

You have to go where the good writing is.

Give me good writing, and I'll play it all day.

Ladies, if you want to know the way to my heart... good spelling and good grammar, good punctuation, capitalize only where you are supposed to capitalize, it's done.

Good writing is good writing, and I'm so happy when I read it.

There are good writers and bad writers. It's hard to find writers who really speak to you, but the work is out there.

The simple idiot's advice I give to screenwriters who say they want to sell a screenplay is, 'Write good.'