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A young writer is easily tempted by the allusive and ethereal and ironic and reflective, but the declarative is at the bottom of most good writing. — Garrison Keillor

I feel like I'm a secondary artist, a kind of a conduit for the writer, and if it's a good writer, then I have a great road map. — Mamie Gummer

I believe no one qualification is so likely to make a good writer, as the power of rejecting his own thoughts. — Alexander Pope

The writer of good will carries a lamp to illuminate the dark corners. — Isabel Allende

I'm a good person but a shitty writer. You're a shitty person but a good writer. We'd make a good team. — John Green

I learned I'm not a science writer. I'm not very good at describing how something is happening. I try to describe "So What?" — David Brooks

I'm purely a popular writer, with no axe to grind apart from writing a good read' for entertainment and relaxation. — Mary Howard

I'm a good scholar when it comes to reading but a blotting kind of writer when you give me a pen. — John Millington Synge

I only sound intelligent when there's a good script writer around. — Christian Bale

I always assume that a good book is more intelligent than its author. It can say things that the writer isn't aware of. — Umberto Eco

I am not a writer, but I have been told I write good emails. — Isabel Gillies

I really think that as good of a job as you do as a writer, you're absolutely indebted to the actors that have to deliver that material. — Carlton Cuse

Both types of books - fiction and nonfiction - are a search for story. As a writer and a reader, there's nothing I crave more than a good story! — Susan Campbell Bartoletti

For a writer, obsession is a good substitute for self-discipline. — Vikram Seth

My parents are both really, really funny, and my little sister is a really good painter, and my other sister is a really good writer. — Michael Cera

There's a good reason I am a writer. I'm completely useless at anything else. — Derek Haines

When I sit down to write, I don't have any real goals except to follow one good sentence with another ... I'm not the kind of writer who has a map. — Melissa Bank

I would like it to be said that I was a good writer of detective and thriller stories. — Agatha Christie

If you are a good writer - and I think I am - you are able to handle any kind of group and imagine their lives. — Earl Hamner Jr.

There is no one like you on this planet. Not everyone may have the gift of being a good writer, but each one of us has a story to tell. — K.J. Kilton

The same tools that make any writer good, plus a cheerful willingness to suspend belief. — Fred Saberhagen

I'm good at being by myself. I guess if you're a writer you get used to that. — Chuck Klosterman

The best fame is a writer's fame. It's enough to get a table at a good restaurant, but not enough to get you interrupted when you eat. — Fran Lebowitz

I'm a competent novelist. I'm getting better. But I'm a really good short story writer. — Tim Pratt

Philip Roth is a good writer, but I wouldn't want to shake hands with him. — Jacqueline Susann

In order to be a good writer, you've got to be a bad boss. Self-discipline and stamina are the two major arms in a writer's arsenal. — Leon Uris

I'm not a very good writer. I'm working at it. — Henry Rollins

A good writer writes with a camera, not a pen. — Robert Newton Peck

Sometimes I get jealous when I'm reading a great book by a younger writer. But 'White Tiger' is so good, I almost forgot to hate Aravind Adiga. — David Benioff

I'd hire the devil himself as a writer if he gave me a good story ... — Samuel Goldwyn

While I was in college becoming a good Catholic I was also becoming a writer - one haunted by Catholicism. — Julianna Baggott

It's always great when you want scientific fact to get a really good science fiction writer to talk to you about it. — Robin Williams

Van Houten, I'm a good person but a shitty writer. you're a shitty person but a good writer. — John Green

Part of being a fiction writer is being able to imagine how someone else is thinking and feeling. I think I've always been good at that. — Andrew Clements

If the public likes you, you're good. Shakespeare was a common, down-to-earth writer in his day. — Mickey Spillane

A bench in the street can be a good writer because all kind of material comes onto it like a heavy rain! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Your first obligation as a writer is to tell the truth and to tell a good story. — Lena Waithe

I will say that the prison regime is rather a good one for a writer because you have plenty of time to write. — Mary Archer

I'm a writer. I write because I don't talk so good. — Lionel Fisher

A great writer has all 4 - but you can still be a good writer with only 1 and 2. — Susan Sontag

Most people do a good deal of whatever they do motivated by love. For me, few stories are truly complete without it. — Sara Sheridan

Well, I'm a slow writer. For me, a good day is a page, maybe a page and a half. I'd love to be more efficient, but I am not. — Charles Frazier

But I wouldn't recommend writing. You can be a successful writer and never meet another soul. I'm not sure that's a good thing. — J.G. Ballard

I had no ambition to be a writer because the books I read were too good, my standards were too high. — Haruki Murakami

I'm a writer and writers either have good memories or nothing at all. — Maya Angelou

I'm not a very good writer. But I'm a HELLUVA re-writer. — Laini Giles

A good writer is an excellent reader. — Cyci Cade

Thinking is a great joy for a good writer and a great torture for the bad one! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

I just try and do something good. But as a writer, you're slightly out of control. — Peter Morgan

There is no such thing as a good writer and a bad liar. — Amy Bloom

I'm just trying to tell a nice story. Whether you're a writer or a producer, all you want to do is tell a good yarn. — Irwin Winkler

Grammar to a writer is to a mountaineer a good pair of hiking boots or, more precisely, to a deep-sea diver an oxygen tank. — A.A. Patawaran

Being a writer is a good, good thing. — Shannon Hale

There's one good kind of writer - a dead one. — James T. Farrell

Admiration from my readers inspire me, and the only 'formula' I believe in towards making a good writer is: 'to thine own self be true!' — Ashwin Sanghi

Doing interesting things and then writing about them is the best way to become a good writer. — Jean Craighead George

Young or old, good or bad, I don't think anything dies as slow and as hard as a writer. — Charles Bukowski

Other writers definitely influence my writing. What encourages me and inspires me is when I read a good book. It makes me want to be a better writer. — Kimberly Willis Holt

And life is a good thing for a writer. It's where we get our raw material, for a start. We quite like to stop and watch it. — Neil Gaiman

I always feel that if you put me in a room with a director and a writer and let me talk about the script, I can give a good account of myself. — Daniel Radcliffe

That's what a writer does; they make things up and that makes for good reading. — Debbie Reynolds

To be a good writer you must be a good reader". — Abdulazeez Henry Musa

Good or bad, words have an impact on each of us. As a writer, I can only hope that the effects my words have on others are more often good than bad. — Jessica Lave

It's true that we, writers, write (create) books, but eventually, a good book gives birth to a good, established writer. — Tarang Sinha

A great writer is a great writer ... Tolstoy was not a woman, but 'Anna Karenina' is still a pretty good book. — Phil Klay

Any hack can safely rail away at foreign powers beyond the sea; but a good writer is a critic of the society he lives in. — Edward Abbey

Being a good writer doesn't make you a good reporter, it takes hustle. — David

A good short-story writer has an instinct for sketching in just enough background to ground the specific story. — Lynn Abbey

No matter how big a name you are, how many big series you've been in or how good looking you are, in the end, all actors are secondary to the writer. — Christopher Eccleston

A good TV writer needs all the same tricks a good novelist has. — Dean Bakopoulos

A good writer wants from us - or has no right to ask more than - intelligence, good faith and time. — John Jeremiah Sullivan

A good writer always works at the impossible. — John Steinbeck

A good creative-writing teacher can save a good writer a lot of time. — Richard Hugo

The hardest thing in the world for a writer is to amass a readership. So many good books come out, and so many good books disappear. — Patrick DeWitt

A real and admirable writer is the one who can write good books but can take criticisms better. — Nicholaa Spencer

Getting away from being 'a good girl' is important because it's impossible to be a 'good girl' and a writer at the same time. — Lynne Sharon Schwartz

My publisher, who was so good as a taster and editor, when she became a writer, lo and behold, it was all this feminine tosh. — V.S. Naipaul

I'm not a very good writer, but I'm an excellent rewriter. — James A. Michener

Why do I write? It's not that I want people to think I am smart, or even that I am a good writer. I write because I want to end my loneliness. — Jonathan Safran Foer

I'm very happy with the way I write. I think I do it good. But I've never really considered myself a writer. — Quentin Tarantino

I became a good writer when I saw the age of forty coming at me — Pat Mora

A photographer is like a writer ... you're writing with your lens so make sure you tell a good story. — Habib Umar Bin Hafiz

If you want to be a good writer, be the best writer in the world. That's what I've done. — Ray Bradbury

It's possible to do both as a writer - to engage and have a family and all that good stuff - and I chose not to for the sake of the career. — Donald Miller

I'm a singer, a writer and an actress - when I find something that I feel good enough about doing. — Dolly Parton

When a good writer is having fun, the audience is almost always having fun too. — Stephen King

A good writer must be like the birds of a dark forest; you can't see them, but you can hear their mysterious and wise voices! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Insofar as I'm good at directing, it's because I've become a writer. — David Hare

In addition to comedy, I'm a writer. I write checks. They're not very good. — Wendy Liebman

I'm such a coward that unless I get a good writer, I don't want to make a picture. — Howard Hawks

I knew I wasn't that good a writer, and all I could remember was that I could draw. I'm better at drawing than I am at writing. — Claes Oldenburg

You have to be an extremely good reader to appreciate what a good writer is. There are some people who are completely insensitive to good writing. — Robert Caro

An artist who makes pictures that look good but express nothing is like a writer whose words sound good but have no meaning. — Gerald Brommer

A good writer is one that can see the goodness in others and helps them to be better. — Debasish Mridha

I'm not a good photographer, not a good writer. I'm a pretty regular person whose insecurity is so pervasive that it makes me always feel vulnerable. — Sally Mann

A good writer is a magician; she unfolds the dark secrets of mind. — Debasish Mridha

A good writer can fake being an expert in anything - even men's underwear. — Greg Dybec

Someone who does not write books, who thinks a lot, and who lives in unsatisfying society will usually be a good letter- writer. — Friedrich Nietzsche

(On her son) I've met writer's block. He is short, diapered and keeps unplugging my laptop. Good news: he can be conquered with a bottle and a nap. — Cyrese Covelli

I'll never be a good writer, and no chance of being a good actor. — Matthew Vaughn