Care Quote by Anne Lamott

A good writer is basically a story teller, not a scholar or a redeemer of mankind.

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

There are three things you need to be a good writer: you need to read a lot, you need to write a lot, and…

— Clay Shirky

To be a writer you need to see things as they are, and to see things as they are you need a certain basic…

— Tobias Wolff

Nothing good gets written without the writer suffering along the way, in my opinion. Writing should be a pleasure, but unless you feel almost…

— Mohsin Hamid

My father told us all the time: to become a good writer takes writing. Because the more you do it, the better you get…

— Thomas Steinbeck

One of the gifts of being a writer is that it gives you an excuse to do things, to go places and explore. Another…

— Anne Lamott

You have to be an extremely good reader to appreciate what a good writer is. There are some people who are completely insensitive to…

— Robert Caro

“Even great, best selling writers produce works that fall flat from expectations. This writing thing isn't easy and everything you produce won't be a…

— Nancy Arroyo Ruffin

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 understand your…

— Peter Abrahams

I know writers for whom the act of writing is a necessary chore. They suffer to write great work. I am very lucky that…

— Denise Duhamel

Being a writer is great because you get to come up with stuff.

— Courtney A. Kemp

Any one who wishes to become a good writer should endeavour, before he allows himself to be tempted by the more showy qualities, to…

— Henry Watson Fowler