Writing is physical work. It's sweaty work. You just can't…

“Writing is physical work. It’s sweaty work. You can’t just will yourself to become a good writer. You really have to work at it.”

— Will Haygood

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

Writing is physical for me. I always have the sense that the words are coming out of my body, not just my mind.

— Jonathan Lethem

“Writing is a physical art. And writing a book is a lot more like making a complex sculpture out of bronze than writing a…

— Heather Sellers

To me, writing is a very physical process. I lay out the entire book with the two narratives side by side on my bedroom…

— Erik Larson

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

— Walter Savage Landor

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

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