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
A writer is a performer as well. A writer isn't the literary department. That gets tried on but nothing's a script unless… — William Monahan 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
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 don't want to tell people what to think. I'm the least qualified person in the world for that. If I'd go… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
When a good writer is having fun, the audience is almost always having fun too. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I knew that I was a good writer in high school and won awards, and I was the editor of my school… — Halle Berry Copy Share Image
Thinking is a great joy for a good writer and a great torture for the bad one! — Mehmet Murat Ildan 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
Since Caesar, we know his historians are liars. The good writers get read. Bad history doesn't get read. — Peter Greenaway 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
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
Learning to write is not a linear process. There is no logical A-to-B-to-C way to become a good writer. One neat truth… — Natalie Goldberg 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
Most writers write to say something about other people - and it doesn't last. Good writers write to find out about themselves… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Philip Roth is a good writer, but I wouldn't want to shake hands with him. — Jacqueline Susann Copy Share Image
Absolutely breathtaking, nail-biting, and edge-of-your-seat. Michael Koryta is a master at maintaining suspense and a hell of a good writer. THOSE WHO… — Nelson DeMille Copy Share Image
There are very few good writers about art, and you either get art-fashion writing with trendy views or you get very traditional… — Marc Quinn 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
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
At the same time that you've got to open yourself up to the fact that experience is going to teach you year… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
I think that money is devoted to serious journalism, with analysis, interestingly presented, by good writers can still sell newspapers. — Phillip Knightley Copy Share Image
This branch of mathematics [Probability] is the only one, I believe, in which good writers frequently get results which are entirely erroneous. — Charles Sanders Peirce 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
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