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

You don't have to be a good person to be a good writer--history shows it's better if you're not--but you have to understand your…

— Peter Abrahams

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

So many interviews, even ones that I consider really intelligent and good writers, will do the, like, 'Oh, you're not taking your clothes off…

— Lorde

What makes a good writer of history is a guy who is suspicious. Suspicion marks the real difference between the man who wants to…

— Jim Bishop

My grandfather had been a newspaper reporter, as was my uncle. They were pretty good writers and so I thought maybe somewhere down the…

— Gene Hackman

Good writers hate bad writing but hating bad writing doesn’t make you good. Writing badly does.

— Dan Harmon

No theoretician, no writer on art, however interesting he or she might be, could be as interesting as Picasso. A good writer on art…

— David Hockney

A good writer does not write as people write, but as he writes.

— Baron de Montesquieu

You can't be a good writer without being a good thinker.

— Andy Rooney

“Most good writers are good psychologists.”

— Rachel Ballon

Well, you know when people are no good at anything else they become writers.

— W. Somerset Maugham

Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear.

— Ezra Pound

I always think that good writers should be growing up on the brink of death - it really lets them see mortality very clearly.

— Gary Shteyngart

Neil [Gaiman, creator of the comic Sandman, featuring the Amos-based character Delirium] believes that faeries have gone beyond cool. They've transcended cool. I just…

— Tori Amos

Usually people who do bad things make good writers.I did a lot of bad things, which is why my novels are interesting.

— Jakucho Setouchi