“I'm not as good a writer as some, but I'm not bad as most either.” — Jonathan Heatt Copy Share Image
If you want to be a good writer, make sure you read. I'm amazed by how many people don't bother to do… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
A good writer always works at the impossible.There is another kind who pulls in his horizons, drops his mind as one lowers… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“Honestly,” he says, “I judge writers on how they write queries. If you’re a good writer, you’re a good writer.” And if… — Keith Gessen Copy Share Image
To be a good editor or a good writer, I think you really need to be a great reader first. — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
I just try and do something good. But as a writer, you're slightly out of control. — Peter Morgan Copy Share Image
A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
He who is afraid to use an "I" in his writing will never make a good writer. — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
Writing is physical work. It's sweaty work. You just can't will yourself to become a good writer. You really have to work… — Wil Haygood Copy Share Image
A whole bunch of agents and editors looked at my stories, and they all said, in effect, 'You're a pretty good writer… — Bob Shacochis Copy Share Image
Evan Handler is not only a fine actor, he’s a damn good writer. It’s Only Temporary is wise and funny and as… — Meghan Daum Copy Share Image
A good writer gets better only by learning to cut, to remove the ornamental, the descriptive, the narrative, and especially the deeply… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
I think writing and reading are completely synergistic; not necessarily in that one has to be a good reader to be a… — Emma Walton Hamilton Copy Share Image
Sylvester has a great popular sense, as good as any writer I've ever worked with. He knows what audiences want to see,… — Ted Kotcheff Copy Share Image
My freshman English professor at Kent State University in 1984 told me I was a good writer, and she loved all the… — Dav Pilkey Copy Share Image
I have never thought of myself as a good writer. Anyone who wants reassurance of that should read one of my first… — James A. Michener Copy Share Image
A good writer should be able to write comedic work that made you laugh, and scary stuff that made you scared, and… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
My inspiration for writing is all the wonderful books that I read as a child and that I still read. I think… — Patricia MacLachlan Copy Share Image
I believe a good writer can write a good book with any sort of character, in any sort of setting, but I… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
When I read James Joyce, I'm not really interested in the Dublin of 1904. I'm interested in being in the presence of… — Joseph O'Neill Copy Share Image
I'm not a good writer, and I don't care. Unfortunately, after I left college, I didn't have time much for literature. I… — Norman Finkelstein Copy Share Image
Good art can come out of thieves, bootleggers, or horse swipes. People really are afraid to find out just how much hardship… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
Entertain, yes. That goes without saying. But a good writer does that automatically, it's built into the machine. Telling a thumpingly good,… — Harlan Ellison Copy Share Image
No good writer ever merely cheered us up. But there's an unblinking stare into the darkness of things we have to go… — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
One wouldn't want to say that what makes a good writer is the number of books that the writer wrote because you… — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
“WHEN I GOT TO HIGH SCHOOL, A MINISTER ASKED if I wanted to write an article for a church newsletter. When he… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
“You know, I think some people fear that if they like the wrong kind of book, it will reflect poorly on them.… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“All I knew was what I wasn’t, and it took me some years to discover what I was. Which was a writer.… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
A good creative-writing teacher can save a good writer a lot of time. — Richard Hugo Copy Share Image
