Bryan Cranston Quotes

My preference is for really good writing, and I just really don't care where it is.

It's easy to write a good column if you've got good information. It's hard if you have to depend on style alone. I suppose there are people who can get away with styling on a regular basis. I'm not one of them. You're probably not, either.

Once something is well-written, then everything else is gravy.

Great writing is great writing. It's as simple as all that.

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

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

All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.

Good writers are of necessity rare.

Ultimately, it's about the quality of the writing whatever style you are writing.

Easy reading is damn hard writing. But if it's right, it's easy. It's the other way round, too. If it's slovenly written, then it's hard to read. It doesn't give the reader what the careful writer can give the reader.

Well see, I'm a good enough writer that not everybody in my books talks exactly like I do.

There is good and mediocre writing within every genre.

You have to go where the good writing is.

A.J. Liebling, one of my heroes, used to say that he could write better than anyone who wrote faster, and faster than anyone who could write better. I'm one nine-hundredth as good as Liebling, but that principle may slightly apply.

There is no way of writing well and also of writing easily.

Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear.

Just because someone has stylistic limitations doesn't necessarily make them a worse writer.

You just can't make bad writing look good. But if you have good writing, you just say it, and it's almost done.

I never had a highfalutin' view of what I write.

I just keep following the good writing. I'm not good enough to make bad writing look good. Some people can, and I admire them for it, but I cannot. I will go down with the ship.

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

I don't know if Jim was a major part of that or not. He is one of a small group of real storytellers. He has enormous imagination and ability to write. I'm glad he's coming back. It's going to be good for the show.

You know if something is good because you remember the lines because it is written so well. The rhythm of the speech is spot on.

Our admiration of fine writing will always be in proportion to its real difficulty and its apparent ease.

I don't know what makes a writer's voice. It's dozens of things. There are people who write who don't have it. They're tone-deaf, even though they're very fluent. It's an ability, like anything else, being a doctor or a veterinarian, or a musician.