the criteria by which you judge whether a book is good or not A piece of good writing should give the reader a sense of the actual experience. The definition given by a handbook of good writing is “Good writing is the memo that gets action, the letter that says what a phone call can’t. It’s the movie that makes us cry, the TV show that makes us laugh, the lyrics to the song we can’t stop singing, the advertisement that makes us buy” (Random House Guide to Good Writing Personally, I a good writing should be plain, straightforward, concrete and specific, vivid, witty, forceful, thought-provoking.