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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

“Most good writers are good psychologists.”

— Rachel Ballon

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…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

The good stories, of course, write themselves. And somebody wants to know who are the really good writers, and how many of them there…

— R. A. Lafferty

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

“Art educates. That's why writers must know life. . .If the writer knows life, his work is often progressive, even though his own consciousness…

— slawomir mrozek

“We do not like the truth because it is simple, we do not want the truth because it is hard, and we do not…

— Pat Walsh

Writers, you know, are the beggars of Western society.

— Octavio Paz

Everyone thinks writers must know more about the inside of the human head, but that's wrong. They know less, that's why they write. Trying…

— Margaret Atwood

A lot of writers that I know have told me that the first book you write, you write about your childhood, whether you want…

— Tea Obreht

Jealousy is such a direct attack on whatever measure of confidence you’ve been able to muster. But if you continue to write, you are…

— Anne Lamott

“Hire great writers If you are trying to decide among a few people to fill a position, hire the best writer. It doesn’t matter…

— Jason Fried