Good Writer Quotes

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I want to be an honest man and a good writer. — James A. Baldwin
A good writer is not, per se, a good book critic. No more so than a good drunk is automatically a good bartender. — Jim Bishop
Good writers define reality; bad ones merely restate it. A good writer turns fact into truth; a bad writer will, more often than not, accomplish… — Edward Albee
What I always wanted to get seen as was as a good actor, when it was the acting I was doing. When I'm writing, I… — Alan Alda
You cannot teach creativity - how to become a good writer. But you can help a young writer discover within himself what kind of writer… — Mario Vargas Llosa
Nobody objects to a woman being a good writer or sculptor or geneticist if at the same time she manages to be a good wife,… — Marya Mannes
I have never thought of myself as a good writer. Anyone who wants reassurance of that should read one of my first drafts. But I'm… — James A. Michener
Any one who wishes to become a good writer should endeavour, before he allows himself to be tempted by the more showy qualities, to be… — Henry Watson Fowler
You become a good writer just as you become a good joiner: by planing down your sentences. — Anatole France
The good writer, the great writer, has what I have called the three S's: the power to see, to sense, and to say. That is,… — Lawrence Clark Powell
Any hack can safely rail away at foreign powers beyond the sea; but a good writer is a critic of the society he lives in. — Edward Abbey
A good writer must have more than vin rose in his veins, use more than Chablis for ink. — Edward Abbey
I once made the mistake of writing a story with David Corbett. The man smoked me. He can delineate the character and personality of an… — Luis Alberto Urrea
Evan Handler is not only a fine actor, heâ€™s a damn good writer. Itâ€™s Only Temporary is wise and funny and as righteously indignant as… — Meghan Daum
I would like it to be said that I was a good writer of detective and thriller stories. — Agatha Christie
Neil [Gaiman, creator of the comic Sandman, featuring the Amos-based character Delirium] believes that faeries have gone beyond cool. They've transcended cool. I just think… — Tori Amos
Disney was not a good animator, he didn't draw well at all, but he was always a great idea man, and a good writer. — Chuck Jones
The first is that good writing consists of mastering the fundamentals (vocabulary, grammar, the elements of style) and then filling the third level of your… — Stephen King
I became a good writer when I saw the age of forty coming at me — Pat Mora
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 WISH ME DEAD… — Nelson DeMille

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