Good Writer Quotes
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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
About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment.
— Josh Billings
Letters have to pass two tests before they can be classed as good: they must express the personality both of the writer and of the recipient.
— E. M. Forster
Every good writer has much idiom; it is the life and spirit of language.
— Walter Savage Landor
Every great or even every very good writer makes the world over according to his own specifications.
— Raymond Carver
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 don't think any good book is based on factual experience. Bad books are about things the writer already knew before he wrote them. — Carlos Fuentes
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
Fabulous lover, excellent decorator - rotten writer? Nobody can be good at everything, and two out of three ain't bad.
— Rupert Smith
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
A good writer is one that can see the goodness in others and helps them to be better.
— Debasish Mridha
Most people do a good deal of whatever they do motivated by love. For me, few stories are truly complete without it.
— Sara Sheridan
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
A good writer is a magician; she unfolds the dark secrets of mind.
— Debasish Mridha
I suppose I'm most influenced by any good, commercial writer. I learn from everyone.
— Nicholas Sparks
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
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
A good writer is an excellent reader.
— Cyci Cade
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. I write because I don't talk so good.
— Lionel Fisher
A good writer always works at the impossible.
— John Steinbeck
Thinking is a great joy for a good writer and a great torture for the bad one!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
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
I'm not a very good writer. But I'm a HELLUVA re-writer.
— Laini Giles
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
A good writer wants from us - or has no right to ask more than - intelligence, good faith and time.
— John Jeremiah Sullivan
A good TV writer needs all the same tricks a good novelist has.
— Dean Bakopoulos
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
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
The good writer seems to be writing about himself, but has his eye always on that thread of the Universe which runs through himself and all things.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The reviewer's view knew not of the true part of the writer's view, so good or bad, do not brew, and let them through to another part of you.
— Mark Donnelly
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
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
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
All the elements of good writing depend on the writer's skill in choosing one word instead of another.
— Francine Prose
Young or old, good or bad, I don't think anything dies as slow and as hard as a writer.
— Charles Bukowski
Doing interesting things and then writing about them is the best way to become a good writer.
— Jean Craighead George
There's one good kind of writer - a dead one.
— James T. Farrell
A real and admirable writer is the one who can write good books but can take criticisms better.
— Nicholaa Spencer
I'll never be a good writer, and no chance of being a good actor.
— Matthew Vaughn
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
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
No matter how good it is, your book will not sell itself.
— Elinor Florence
Raymond Carver is good. I think he'll be appreciated more and more. He's an easy writer to imitate.
— Leslie Fiedler
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
(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
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
