
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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

American writers want to be not good but great; and so are neither. —
Gore Vidal

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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