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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
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
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
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
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.
The same tools that make any writer good, plus a cheerful willingness to suspend belief.
— Fred Saberhagen
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
Philip Roth is a good writer, but I wouldn't want to shake hands with him.
— Jacqueline Susann
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
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
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
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 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'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
To be a good writer you must be a good reader".
— Abdulazeez Henry Musa
It's true that we, writers, write (create) books, but eventually, a good book gives birth to a good, established writer.
— Tarang Sinha
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
A good writer is a magician; she unfolds the dark secrets of mind.
— Debasish Mridha
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