Anecdotes Quote by Ben Clymer

Writing is incidental to my primary objective, which is spinning a good yarn. I view myself as a storyteller more than a writer. The…

— Ashwin Sanghi

If it's a good story, it's a good story, and it draws readers in.

— H. W. Brands

Good writing is good writing. In many ways, it’s the audience and their expectations that define a genre. A reader of literary fiction expects…

— Rosemary Clement-Moore

Sometimes with certain writing, you feel like you've got to be literal, hit it hard on the nose, just to get the point across.…

— Chace Crawford

Good writing is always about things that are important to you, things that are scary to you, things that eat you up.

— John Edgar Wideman

I find most 'rules' about how to write a 'good story' confining, and I enjoy writing stories that don't look like stories at all…

— Ken Liu

To me, writing is fun. It doesn't matter what you're writing, as long as you can tell a story.

— Stan Lee

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

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

I don't think you get to good writing unless you expose yourself and your feelings.

— Judy Collins

Good writing is really meaningful, and it's one of the - it's still one of the best tools we have to get and capture…

— Robin Sloan

Well, let’s start with the maxim that the best writing is understated, meaning it’s not full of flourishes and semaphores and tap dancing and…

— Gene Weingarten

“I think that to be a good writer, you have to put yourself on the line, you have to think deeply about what is…

— Marilynne Robinson