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… — Peter Abrahams Copy Share Image
“It’s not that I want people to think I am smart, or even that I am a good writer. I write because… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“Better that the book should be not quite so good, and the writer better, and not himself a ridiculous contrast to all… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Any good writer is going to be well-received and is going to not be well-received; that's how you know you're a great… — Karrine Steffans Copy Share Image
A bench in the street can be a good writer because all kind of material comes onto it like a heavy rain! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
“You're never as good a writer as you think you are, and you're never as bad. Just keep reading and writing, writing,… — Don Roff Copy Share Image
For making a good comedy film, you need a good writer whose craft can be understood through the time that he takes… — Johnny Lever Copy Share Image
A great writer has all 4 - but you can still be a good writer with only 1 and 2. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
I stopped reading William Faulkner because it's hard work. I want to read a good writer, but I also want to read… — John Grisham Copy Share Image
A good writer can set a thriller anywhere and make it convincing: the trick is to evoke the setting in such a… — Garry Disher Copy Share Image
Out of the thousand writers huffing and puffing through movieland, there are scarcely fifty men and women of wit and talent... Yet,… — Ben Hecht Copy Share Image
I thought I was a pretty good writer, but I didn't have anything to write about. I wanted to go out in… — Shane Smith Copy Share Image
I enjoy writing, and I know that if I can really focus on that and get some good tuturoing in English, I… — Elijah Wood Copy Share Image
A good writer preserves an air of freedom in his prose, so that the reader won't know how a story will end… — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
“A good writer knew when not to write. Anybody could type. Not that I was a good typist; also I couldn’t spell… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
This is the life I live, and this is the stuff I experience. And like any good writer, I should just write… — Sune Rose Wagner Copy Share Image
David Foster Wallace is a big idol of mine. His writing is so clear that for years I'd read him and think,… — Damian Kulash Copy Share Image
The first is that good writing consists of mastering the fundamentals (vocabulary, grammar, the elements of style) and then filling the third… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I think a good writer is a mix of confidence (sure that what they're writing is going to appeal to their readers)… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
I don't care whether they're men or women, that's bullshit. A good writer can get into any gender, can get into any… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I once made the mistake of writing a story with David Corbett. The man smoked me. He can delineate the character and… — Luis Alberto Urrea Copy Share Image
“The writer doesn’t need economic freedom. All he needs is a pencil and some paper. I’ve never known anything good in writing… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“A good writer is an expert on nothing except himself. And on that subject, if he is wise, he holds his tongue.… — John le Carré Copy Share Image
“I think that to be a good writer, you have to put yourself on the line, you have to think deeply about… — Marilynne Robinson 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
“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
“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
