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Now, practically even better news than that of short assignments is the idea of shitty first drafts. All good writers write them. — Anne Lamott

The good writers touch life often. The mediocre ones run a quick hand over her. The bad ones rape her and leave her for the flies. — Ray Bradbury

I always think the insecurity is going to go away, but it's always there. Only bad writers think they're good. — Harlan Coben

This branch of mathematics [Probability] is the only one, I believe, in which good writers frequently get results which are entirely erroneous. — Charles Sanders Peirce

New writers seem to pop up from everywhere. And quite a few of them are really good and original. — Toni Jerrman

Writers are good at plucking out what they need here and there. — Beverly Cleary

Do we have good writers, producers and actors in the U.K.? Yes we do. — Eric Fellner

Writers are nothing but beggars with a good line. — Charles Bukowski

Two easy steps to be a good writer:
1. Don't write what everyone is writing.
2. Write what everyone is trying to write. — Himanshu Chhabra

Reviews are for readers, not writers. If I get a bad one, I shrug it off. If I get a good one, I don't believe it — William Meikle

Write the ending first and then you'll know before the opening sentence that it's going to be a good book. — Richelle E. Goodrich

Good ideas stay with you until you eventually write the story. — Brian Keene

We can all agree that tea is good for the body. However, tea is very good for our hair too. — Monica Millner

Bad writers have influences. Good writers steal. — S.M. Stirling

My advice for writers is to get a good day job. It takes the pressure off writing if you have a job that pays the bills. — Abraham Verghese

Working with great writers can be humbling and frightening, but it can also change you for good, forever. — Zadie Smith

I was a pretty good fighter. But it was the writers who made me great. — Jack Dempsey

God is the creator of all good plot twists! — Shannon L. Alder

What the readers want is a good story, and what the writers always want to luck into, it's a good story. — Stephen Graham Jones

There are so many stories to be told, by so many good writers. — Sean Bean

All good writers are thieves. The best get away with a heist. — Michael Stutz

I'm a really good team player. That's what it takes to work in the theater. That's what it takes to work in a band with musicians and writers. — David Cassidy

Everything takes me forever. It's all lurch, flail. I hope that is good news to you writers. — Anne Lamott

The only thing a closed book is good for is a table that wobbles. Be an open book. — A.D. Posey

Bad writers are those who try to express their own feeble ideas in the language of good ones. — Georg C. Lichtenberg

That sun is lookin' good ... and hot! Get it? Hilarious! My joke writers are awesome. — Tom Bergeron

good writers know how to shift around their alphbet — Smrithi Eswar

The world does not need more Christian literature. What it needs is more Christians writing good literature. — C.S. Lewis

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

Anybody can direct, but there are only eleven good writers. — Mel Brooks

Since Caesar, we know his historians are liars. The good writers get read. Bad history doesn't get read. — Peter Greenaway

I think that money is devoted to serious journalism, with analysis, interestingly presented, by good writers can still sell newspapers. — Phillip Knightley

A good rule for writers: do not explain overmuch. — W. Somerset Maugham

Many existing top 20 Scottish writers have flourished in part because of good turns done by institutions, arts community, libraries and bookshops. — Sara Sheridan

Writers are encouraged to "keep 'em laughing" and complain "with good humor" in order to "win" allies. The joke is always on ourselves. — Alice Childress

Writers: read books. Read good books. Read bad books. Learn what does and does not work. — Kira Hawke

Good writers have two things in common: they prefer to be understood rather than admired; and they do not write for knowing and over-acute readers. — Friedrich Nietzsche

She was not a writer herself but she was a very good reader, passionate and eclectic in her tastes, and my father had great faith in her judgments. — David Benioff

The good writers touch life often. — Ray Bradbury

Stop to read good writers who are witty and are fun, 'cause that's the kind of fuel on which your Train of Thought will run. — Mister Lemur

Yes, I was good at reading people. I studied them so I could put them in my novels. — Jennifer Echols

It's very hard to get good songs because a lot of writers record their own; they keep the best for themselves. — Olivia Newton-John

All good writers speak in honest voices and tell the truth. — Eudora Welty

Good writing is more about graft and craft than inspiration and aspiration. — Johnny Rich

Good writers touch life often. — Ray Bradbury

You deserve good sperm. You've waited a long time. — Buffy Andrews

I'm not famous for my back story investigations; I'm lucky that I work with good writers and it's usually in the script. — Bill Nighy

It's not the writer who determines how good she is anyway. Writers don't determine that. It's readers who determine that. — Lynne Tillman

A good reader has the power to move the world. — Aman Jassal

Don't mistake a good setup for a satisfying conclusion - many beginning writers end their stories when the real story is just ready to begin. — Stanley Schmidt

Here is a good message from the ocean: You will be an ocean too if you let every river, every rain, every flood and every stream flow to you freely! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Good writers are monotonous, like good composers. They keep trying to perfect the one problem they were born to understand. — Alberto Moravia

I'm a fool for a good role in a creative piece where there are really such talented writers and wonderful actors. — Sissy Spacek

Churchill was a good writer but a bad historian. — Peter Greenaway

I know all actors are different, but I've never sat down and asked the writers, 'Where are we headed? Am I good or bad?' — Blair Brown

Biographies are best when written chronologically. Boring people don't make for good biographies. — Deana J. Driver

Most writers write to say something about other people - and it doesn't last. Good writers write to find out about themselves - and it lasts forever. — Gloria Steinem

I reckon Southern writers are a lot like biscuit makers...more than one can give ya a good feed. — Lola Faye Arnold

Unfortunately, there are writers whose only concern is how good they could make themselves look on a title. — Len Wein

A creative writing program is only as good as its teachers, and I was fortunate in having two great writers as mentors. — Jay McInerney

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

Most writers are in a state of gloom a good deal of the time; they need perpetual reassurance. — John Hall Wheelock

A good story is one liked. A great story is one that challenges thought, defiant and gets mouths talking. — Veronica Purcell

Writers - we're much more comfortable at parties standing in the corner watching everybody else having a good time than we are mingling. — Neil Gaiman

I think it's a question which particularly arises over women writers: whether it's better to have a happy life or a good supply of tragic plots. — Wendy Cope

Mice: But reading all the good writers might discourage you.
Y.C.: Then you ought to be discouraged. — Ernest Hemingway,

My school is very good and quite understanding and know I have to take time off for interviews or writers' festivals. — Alexandra Adornetto

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

If you don't think screenwriting is a work of art, good luck in your life without a soul. — A.D. Posey

Only bad writers think they're good. — Harlan Coben

I write because I always want good to win over evil — Anamika Mishra

Not all fiction writers are evil, just the ones good at their job. After all, it's not a decent book if it can't make you cry. — Ellie Rose McKee

I base a deuteragonist on the best friend I never had. A lot of good ideas come from what I never had and cause my imagination to light up. — B.A. Gabrielle

Good horror offers a sense of an upended, lawless world and that's appealing to anyone who grew up feeling like an outsider. — Christopher Rice

All great writers begin with a good leather binding and a respectable title. — James M. Barrie

All the good writers of confessions, from Augustine onwards, are men who are still a little in love with their sins. — Anatole France

Only bad writers think that their work is really good. — Anne Enright

There are many more want-to-be writers out there than good editors. — Stephen Ambrose

All really good writers use fragments. — Priscilla Long

Heart can keep a secret, but face is not a good secret keeper! So what heart knows, face will expose it! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

What makes bad writers so annoying is their good passages. — Natalie Clifford Barney

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

Most of the writers I like just intimidate and humble me but in that there's a good deal of inspiration to be had as well. — Henry Rollins

Good writers will, indeed, do well to imitate the ingenious traveller ... who always proportions his stay in any place. — Henry Fielding

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

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

All good writers are weird. Proudly weird. — Margo Rabb

In ten episodes, we were able to do our writers' room first. We did that all summer and wrote for 15 weeks and got everything in really good shape. — Lennon Parham

Good writers are often excellent at a hundred other things, but writing promises a greater latitude for the ego. — John Cheever

Good prose is solitary work. — Christopher Bram

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

But most good writers are Don Quixote at heart, and unreasonableness is often a condition of art. — Ha Jin

Writers don't have bad life days; they just have good research days. — Julie Wright

Be so good they can't ignore you."
Steve Martin — Brenda Sorrels

Good writers define reality
Bad ones merely restate it. — Edward Albee

Try to see the world from the eyes of an old man! Old eyes are a good place to begin with for understanding the truths! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

As long as it comes from the heart, in the end, it will be good. — A.D. Posey

But writers, Garp knew, were just observers - good and ruthless imitators of human behavior. — John Irving

There are plenty of good Indian writers in English, and none of us feel we are carrying the burden of being a poster boy. — Vikram Seth

You don't have to take it out on my typewrite ya' know. It's not the machine's fault that you can't write. It's a sin to do that to a good machine. — Sam Shepard