Most good writers are good psychologists.

If you want to understand human beings, there are plenty of people to go to besides psychologists… Most of these people are incapable of…

— Anthony Standen

“A good psychologist will take already-traumatic events in your life and work with you to contextualize them as non-traumatic. A bad psychologist will take…

— Simone Collins

I don't think the police, even if we train them, can be, you know, as good as psychologists and psychiatrists and others knowing what…

— Hillary Clinton

“Writers, when they’re good, open windows to worlds held precious and priceless by the soul. It is a sad day when they leave the…

— psyche roxas-mendoza

We want to prove we are good writers or good business, good parents or good teachers. The world is very competitive and catches us…

— Henri Nouwen

I knew I would read all kinds of books and try to get at what it is that makes good writers good. But I…

— Carl Sandburg

“All good storytellers are of necessity good writers - even if they may be poorly edited ones. Unfortunately, not all good writers are good…

— Nupur Tustin

One of the qualities essential to writing exciting stories, whether for page or screen, is an ability to abandon one's morality. We simply cannot…

— Russell Smith

The most despised sector of Hollywood are the writers. A good writer is quickly promoted to a 'concept man' - and then a producer…

— John Rhys-Davies

If writers were good businessmen, they'd have too much sense to be writers.

— Irvin S. Cobb

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

— Stephen Ambrose

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

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

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

— Ezra Pound

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

— W. Somerset Maugham