A good writer of history is a guy who is suspicious.

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

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

Get up from your desk and wander outside occasionally. To be a good writer one needs to be a good observer, and there isn't…

— Jane Yolen

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

— Richard Hugo

A good writer can set a thriller anywhere and make it convincing: the trick is to evoke the setting in such a way that…

— Garry Disher

Every good writer has much idiom; it is the life and spirit of language.

— Walter Savage Landor

Intelligence alone can't make a good writer and style alone can't make a good writer - that is, not a really important or significant…

— Truman Capote

I think I'm a good writer. I think I have my own voice, which is unique to everyone - everyone has their own voice;…

— Nicole Holofcener

A good writer is an expert on nothing except himself. And on that subject, if he is wise, he holds his tongue.

— John le Carre

The whole relationship between a writer's spiritual/emotional condition and the kind of wordstuff and form-making that's going on in his work is an interesting…

— Seamus Heaney

A good writer is one you can read without breaking a sweat.

— Patricia T. O'Conner

If you're really a good writer and deserve that honored position, then by God, you'll write, and you'll be read, and you'll be produced…

— Rod Serling

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

— Andy Rooney

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

— Baron de Montesquieu

“A good writer can watch a cat pad across the street and know what it is to be pounced upon by a Bengal tiger.”

— John le Carré