Marry somebody you love and who thinks you being a writer's a good idea. — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
“Honestly,” he says, “I judge writers on how they write queries. If you’re a good writer, you’re a good writer.” And if… — Keith Gessen Copy Share Image
“Want to be a writer? take a good book a good pen and a notepad to bed with you every night of… — Ken Scott Copy Share Image
My heroes are people like Philip Levine, who is simply like a god to me, as a writer. And he is a… — Frederick Busch Copy Share Image
If a writer is good at what he does, it's not easy to do a good job every day... To invent something… — Barun Sobti Copy Share Image
There is no idea so stupid or hackneyed that a sufficiently-talented writer can't get a good story out of it. — Lawrence Watt-Evans Copy Share Image
Well, I'm a slow writer. For me, a good day is a page, maybe a page and a half. I'd love to… — Charles Frazier Copy Share Image
Truth is, every writer has to be a good editor, and you have to edit yourself. It's a skill every writer has… — Lisa Scottoline Copy Share Image
The same tools that make any writer good, plus a cheerful willingness to suspend belief. — Fred Saberhagen Copy Share Image
I don't read other writers because I'm writing all the time. It's too disturbing to read a writer with a good style… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
Whenever an encounter between a writer of good will and a regular person of good will happens to touch on the subject… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
“She was not a writer herself but she was a very good reader, passionate and eclectic in her tastes, and my father… — David Benioff Copy Share Image
When you are a sentence-based writer, they have to be good. They have to be really on the spot. Because when you… — Per Petterson Copy Share Image
The writer must have a good imagination to begin with, but the imagination has to be muscular, which means it must be… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Has the painter not always gone to an art school, or at least to an established master, for instruction? And the composer,… — Paul Engle Copy Share Image
I don't want my kids talked about. It's one of the reasons I thought that if I could just make a go… — Harry Enfield Copy Share Image
“And it's not that I'm a good writer. I found good characters. They tell me what to write, and thank God for… — M.L. Gardner Copy Share Image
How does it happen that a writer who's not even very good - and I can say that, I've read four or… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“One ought not to fall in love with someone by way of their writing. One must be especially careful if the writing… — Jane Juska Copy Share Image
A well-read writer, with good taste, is one who has the command of the wit of other men; he searches where knowledge… — Isaac D'Israeli Copy Share Image
“In reality there is no kind of evidence or argument by which one can show that Shakespeare, or any other writer, is… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“The writer must have a good imagination to begin with, but the imagination has to be muscular, which means it must be… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“What happens if the writer is good is usually not that the work seems derivative or trivial but just the opposite: the… — Thomas C. Foster Copy Share Image
I think you get most of the most interesting work done in fields where people don't think they're doing art but are… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“It's this way, see--when a writer first starts out, he gets a big kick from the stuff he does, and the reader… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
I don't think I'm a brilliant writer, but I'm a good writer, and it's just so empowering to get involved. — Maggie Gyllenhaal 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'm not a good crime writer. I'm not good with plots... so I have to do something else. — Karin Fossum Copy Share Image
I feel like I'm a secondary artist, a kind of a conduit for the writer, and if it's a good writer, then… — Mamie Gummer Copy Share Image
I was really bored, pretty antisocial, and not much of a joiner, and people thought that was a problem. I hated high… — Deborah Ellis Copy Share Image
Maybe because I began as a writer, I have a good ear for dialogue, and maybe being an English major - and… — Owen Wilson Copy Share Image
“If a writer is any good, what he makes will have its source in a realm much larger than that which his… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
A certain slightly cruel disregard for the feelings of living people is simply part of the package. I think a writer, if… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
Being literate as a writer is good craft, is knowing your job, is knowing how to use your tools properly and not… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
One of my strengths as a writer is that I'm a good problem-solver. I write these unthinking, ungoverned first drafts. The project… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
