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It always seemed much better to be a writer - a Real Writer - than a successful hack.
— Edmund White
The more subtle and elegant you are in hiding your plot points, the better you are as a writer.
— Billy Wilder
I'm a much better writer for being a father.
— Chris Cleave
Novelist and poet David Huddle is a quiet but fabulous writer, and he does adolescent longing better than anyone I know.
— Rebecca Makkai
A Memory Is Better Than A Phony!
— Latif Mercado
When you write, magic happens. Doors open. People smile and the world is a better place
— Alan Dapre
Better that the book should be not quite so good, and the writer better, and not himself a ridiculous contrast to all he has written.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
In order to be a better writer, one must always write.
— Safa Shaqsy
(Interested in being a better writer? Go buy yourself a copy of The Collected Stories by Grace Paley.) The
— Ann Patchett
If you're a studio writer, the funny better be on the page.
— Thomas Lennon
Being a professional writer is a lot like being a hooker. You'd better find out if you're any good at it before you start charging for it.
— Sharyn McCrumb
Detroit, my 'great' subject, made me the person I am, consequently the writer I am - for better or worse.
— Joyce Carol Oates
Some people make you want to be a better person, and that, for me, is the purest form of love.
— Charlotte Eriksson
What a writer has to do is write what hasn't been written before or beat dead men at what they have done.
— Ernest Hemingway,
G.K. Chesterton was the best writer of the 20th century. He said something about everything and he said it better than anybody else.
— Dale Ahlquist
The better the writer, the more complicated the dangler.
— Mary Norris
I'm a better writer than I am a singer, and I express myself easily through writing.
— Rebecca Ferguson
I want to have new challenges and write new crazy books because I think it makes me a better writer to be insecure and try new things.
— David Lagercrantz
You don't have to be a good person to be a good writerhistory shows it's better if you're not
but you have to understand your badness. — Peter Abrahams
I think writing is such a great talent, and if I was better, I would love to be a writer.
— Shiloh Fernandez
I had discovered that being a writer gave you a lot of license to fiddle with the truth, but I'd better not get into the habit of it.
— Robert McCammon
I don't use a typewriter, I write longhand, with a pencil. Essentially I'm a horizontal writer. I think better when I'm lying down.
— Truman Capote
Since I became a knitting humor writer, I seem to be understood a little better - at least for the purposes of social discourse.
— Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
The more you read, the more you write, and the more you free yourself to do so, the better writer you will become.
— A.D. Posey
Writer's block isn't always a problem. It can be a process of writing that helps us write better.
— Jennifer Hudson Taylor
A writer without a sense of justice or injustice would be better off editing the yearbook for a school for exceptional children.
— Ernest Hemingway,
The more consistently Austrian School an economist is, the better a writer he will be.
— Murray Rothbard
It's better to be remembered for what you said, not what you earned.
— Carla H. Krueger
It's the natural trajectory of a writing career that a writer becomes better at being herself.
— Amy Hempel
I think self-doubt, as grim as it can be, makes me a better writer. Stasis and hubris would probably be the death knell for my career.
— Kristan Higgins
Experiencing life makes you a better writer, and writing enhances your experience of life.
— K. M. Bozarth
I feel much more comfortable as a writer than an actor. I feel like I am a much better writer than I am an actor.
— Seth Rogen
Myself, I knew a writer - not your father - who once told me his worst day writing was better than his best day not writing.
— Jane Lotter
What one's goal should be is just to become a better writer and to tell different kinds of stories.
— Diane Mott Davidson
While I do believe I become a technically better writer over time, in others ways writing gets harder because inspiration is finite.
— Steve Erickson
I'm a better writer now because I've worked very hard at getting better. My long-range goal will always be to write better books.
— George Pelecanos
There can be no better prize for a writer than one awarded by an international book fair.
— Antonio Munoz Molina
To be a better cook, cook more. To be a better writer, read more.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
People keep asking me ... How to instantly become a better writer? It's simple: Use "power words" and see for yourself.
— Ziad K. Abdelnour
A real and admirable writer is the one who can write good books but can take criticisms better.
— Nicholaa Spencer
I think one of my better gifts as a writer is empathy.
— Jonathan Tropper
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're a writer. And that's something better than being a millionaire. Because it's something holy.
— Harlan Ellison
I love being a writer because I want to leave something here on earth to make it better, prettier, stronger.
— Cynthia Rylant
Nothing will train you to write better as a writer, than working on your next book.
— Brandon Sanderson
If I were a better artist, I'd be a painter, and if I were a better writer, I'd write books.. but I'm not, so I draw cartoons!
— Charles M. Schulz
Safety and security stifle creativity! The more I suffer the better I create. But then I create to live of it safe and secure one day!
— Nathan Haddish Mogos
Reading while I'm writing ideally inspires my competitive side. When I read great writers, I want to be a better writer.
— Amity Gaige
If you're going to be a writer you have to be one of the great ones ... After all, there are better ways to starve to death.
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
A writer worth his salt is probably better off in an adversarial relation with the U.S. Senate.
— Walker Percy
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
I'm better at being a lawyer than I am at being a writer.
— David Shapiro
If I'm here, I'll be trying to be a better human being, a better writer, a better friend and a better beloved.
— Maya Angelou
The more you live, the better writer you are.
— Meg Rosoff
The inventor creates so that life might be better. The writer creates so that we might be better.
— Terry Barnes
How I became a better writer was that I kept writing.
— Sallie Tisdale
A good writer is one that can see the goodness in others and helps them to be better.
— Debasish Mridha
I'm probably better known in the US as a YA writer, I have a huge body of adult horror and fantasy behind me.
— Michael Scott
