A good writer is not someone who knows how to write- but how to rewrite — William Goldman Copy Share Image
A good creative-writing teacher can save a good writer a lot of time. — Richard Hugo Copy Share Image
“A good critic knows that he or she can be wrong, as does a good writer.” — Andy Merton Copy Share Image
Imagination? It is the one thing beside honesty that a good writer must have. The more he learns from experience the more… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Writing is so hard. Why would you be a writer if you weren't really good at it? If you could be anything… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
I'm such a coward that unless I get a good writer, I don't want to make a picture. — Howard Hawks Copy Share Image
There are three things you need to be a good writer: you need to read a lot, you need to write a… — Clay Shirky Copy Share Image
I would like it to be said that I was a good writer of detective and thriller stories. — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
I'm not good enough as a person and definitely not good enough as a writer. — Kiese Laymon Copy Share Image
If you're a good writer, you don't have everybody shouting in every scene. — Graham Linehan Copy Share Image
It took me a while to affirm the fact that I'm actually a really good writer. I couldn't even call myself a… — Luvvie Ajayi Copy Share Image
A good journalist, as you know, is a great listener. And so's a good writer. And I got to listen to people… — Louise Penny Copy Share Image
And I think a good writer's gonna make it interesting. From the first paragraph it will all be interesting. Just work at… — Kurt Loder Copy Share Image
What I always wanted to get seen as was as a good actor, when it was the acting I was doing. When… — Alan Alda Copy Share Image
If you are a good writer you use your life experience to do something different than someone who is 20-years-old can do.… — El-P Copy Share Image
“A good book laces invisible fingers into the shape of a winter armchair or a hammock in the sun. I'm not talking… — Brenda Walker Copy Share Image
The good writer, the great writer, has what I have called the three S's: the power to see, to sense, and to… — Lawrence Clark Powell Copy Share Image
I think my job is to try and be as honest as I can with what is in my mind and how… — Paul Thomas Anderson 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
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
I think writer is a word without gender, and a good writer observes, absorbs, hopefully empathizes then translates that into character and… — Nora Roberts 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
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
“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
“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
