A good writer wants from us — or has no right to ask more than — intelligence, good faith and time. — John Jeremiah Sullivan Copy Share Image
Good writers hate bad writing but hating bad writing doesn’t make you good. Writing badly does. — Dan Harmon Copy Share Image
When the fad changed from folk to rock, they didn't take along any good writers. — Mary Travers Copy Share Image
Good writers are in the business of leaving signposts saying, Tour my world, see and feel it through my eyes; I am… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
No theoretician, no writer on art, however interesting he or she might be, could be as interesting as Picasso. A good writer… — David Hockney 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 think that people who can't believe in faeries aren't worth knowing. I just think that alternate realities make you a good… — Tori Amos Copy Share Image
There are tons of really good writers out there, but for one reason or another, they just have not had the support… — Janet Evanovich Copy Share Image
I'm not famous for my back story investigations; I'm lucky that I work with good writers and it's usually in the script. — Bill Nighy Copy Share Image
When I was younger, the main struggle was to be a 'good writer.' Now I more or less take my writing abilities… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
I was able to work out all sorts of attitudes to style and event and character, all of which affected the way… — Margaret Mahy Copy Share Image
Appealing to the five senses is the feature that will always set writing apart from the visual media. A good writer will… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
Your job description as a journalist is to question and scrutinize critically-neve r to repeat claims uncritically, no matter how highly placed… — Steig Larsson Copy Share Image
Out of the thousand writers huffing and puffing through movieland there are scarcely fifty men and women of wit or talent. The… — Ben Hecht Copy Share Image
Well a good writer writes, a good musician listens to a lot more than he actually composes, and if you're going to… — David Lee Roth 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
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… — Rod Serling 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 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
If you have other things in your life-family, friends, good productive day work-these can interact with your writing and the sum will… — David Brin Copy Share Image
Get up from your desk and wander outside occasionally. To be a good writer one needs to be a good observer, and… — Jane Yolen Copy Share Image
All good writers across the board, if they're dealing with real tragedy, they will give you comedy in it. And if they're… — Chukwudi Iwuji Copy Share Image
I didn't become a good writer until I learned how to rewrite. And I don't just mean fixing spelling and adding a… — Louis Sachar Copy Share Image
I always think that good writers should be growing up on the brink of death - it really lets them see mortality… — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
What's not realized about good novelists is that they're as competitive as good athletes. They study each other - where the other… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
I find that with any good run on a show with good writers, they put something on paper, and you put something… — Dallas Roberts Copy Share Image
I say that being a smart writer doesn't make you a good writer. There's obviously a difference between talent and intelligence. And… — Gustavo Perez Firmat Copy Share Image
A writer is like a gypsy. He owes no allegiance to any government. If he is a good writer he will never… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Copywriters, journalists, mainstream authors, ghostwriters, bloggers and advertising creatives have as much right to think of themselves as good writers as academics,… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
Good writers know that crime is an entre into telling a greater story about character. Good crime writing holds up a mirror… — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
Good writers define reality; bad ones merely restate it. A good writer turns fact into truth; a bad writer will, more often… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
Good writers are monotonous, like good composers. They keep trying to perfect the one problem they were born to understand. — Alberto Moravia Copy Share Image
In order to be a good writer, you've got to be a bad boss. Self-discipline and stamina are the two major arms… — Leon Uris Copy Share Image
The news business is simple but it's not easy to do well. You know the story, you have to cover it, you… — Jai Courtney Copy Share Image
Intelligence alone can't make a good writer and style alone can't make a good writer - that is, not a really important… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
“Good writers are like magpies, attracted to shiny things and storing away treasures - pieces of dialogue and experience - which pop… — Jane Wilson-Howarth Copy Share Image
I do increasingly feel like becoming a better writer is about trying to find new ways to solve the same problems over… — Mike Young 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
Although I write screenplays, I don't think I'm a very good writer. I'm very interested in studying cultures and social issues, but… — George Lucas Copy Share Image
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
