When a good writer is having fun, the audience is almost always having fun too. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Good writers are often excellent at a hundred other things, but writing promises a greater latitude for the ego. — John Cheever Copy Share Image
I wouldn't be a very good writer if someone hadn't taught me how to read. — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
A good creative-writing teacher can save a good writer a lot of time. — Richard Hugo Copy Share Image
A good writer must have more than vin rose in his veins, use more than Chablis for ink. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Nothing beats a good part with good writers that you get to come back to year after year. — Merritt Wever 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
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
Everybody walks past a thousand story ideas every day. The good writers are the ones who see five or six of them.… — Orson Scott Card 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
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
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
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
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'm an actor. I'm just a creative person. I figure if I wasn't a good writer, I'd take to renovating homes... not… — Andrea Gabriel 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
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
So many interviews, even ones that I consider really intelligent and good writers, will do the, like, 'Oh, you're not taking your… — Lorde Copy Share Image
Tips can make someone a better writer but not necessarily a good writer. That's a larger package - a matter of character.… — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
All good writers inspire me as I have never thought I was any good. As far as a writer who made me… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
There's a lot of things that I've done to stick into the box set. You never have it this good. I think… — Mel Brooks 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
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
“All good writers write [terrible first drafts.] This is how they end up with good second drafts and terrific third drafts. .… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Literature is a place for generosity and affection and hunger for equals - not a prizefight ring. We are increased, confirmed in… — Tillie Olsen Copy Share Image
I want to stay in the writing long enough to become a falling star of the up-and-coming genre, then a has-been known… — Daryl Gregory Copy Share Image
There is this thing called the university, and everybody goes there now. And there are these things called teachers who make students… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
When people in my generation started to write, we did not actually have much of a movie industry, much of a theater… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
I really need to know where I'm going with fiction to write it in a way that at least I'm happy with.… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
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