Best Good Writer Quotes
97 Good Writer quotes by 82 unique authors
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Nothing can destroy the good writer. The only thing that can alter the good writer is death. Good ones don't have time to bother with…
— William Faulkner
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There are three things you need to be a good writer: you need to read a lot, you need to write a lot, and you…
— Clay Shirky
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I think that people who can't believe in faeries aren't worth knowing. I just think that alternate realities make you a good writer. If your…
— Tori Amos
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When you combine something to say with the skill to say it properly, then you've got a good writer.
— Theodore Sturgeon
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Somehow, some way, incredibly enough, good writing ultimately gets recognized. If you're a really good writer and deserve that honored position, then by God, you'll…
— Rod Serling
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A good writer always works at the impossible.There is another kind who pulls in his horizons, drops his mind as one lowers rifle sights.
— John Steinbeck
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A good writer is an expert on nothing except himself. And on that subject, if he is wise, he holds his tongue.
— John le Carre
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A good writer is always a people watcher.
— Judy Blume
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A good writer always works at the impossible.
— John Steinbeck
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My freshman English professor at Kent State University in 1984 told me I was a good writer, and she loved all the silly pictures I…
— Dav Pilkey
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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 about writing cannot…
— Natalie Goldberg
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When a good writer is having fun, the audience is almost always having fun too.
— Stephen King
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Your job description as a journalist is to question and scrutinize critically-neve r to repeat claims uncritically, no matter how highly placed the sources in…
— Steig Larsson
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If you are a good writer - and I think I am - you are able to handle any kind of group and imagine their…
— Earl Hamner, Jr.
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What makes a good writer of history is a guy who is suspicious. Suspicion marks the real difference between the man who wants to write…
— Jim Bishop
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For the serious mediocre writer convention makes him sound like a lot of other people; for the popular writer it gives him a formula he…
— Northrop Frye
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A good journalist, as you know, is a great listener. And so's a good writer. And I got to listen to people for almost 20…
— Louise Penny
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I believe writers need to be chameleons, or like Meryl Streep, who can play all sorts of characters. A good writer should be able to…
— Marisha Pessl
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Any good writer is going to be well-received and is going to not be well-received; that's how you know you're a great writer.
— Karrine Steffans
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I thought I was a pretty good writer, but I didn't have anything to write about. I wanted to go out in the world, have…
— Shane Smith
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There's a really nice moment in the life of a piece of writing where the writer starts to get a feeling of it outgrowing him…
— George Saunders
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A good writer cannot avoid having social consciousness. I don't mean this about small pieces of writing, but about a big book. If it's a…
— Marguerite Young
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A good writer must be like the birds of a dark forest; you can't see them, but you can hear their mysterious and wise voices!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
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Appealing to the five senses is the feature that will always set writing apart from the visual media. A good writer will tell us what…
— Janet Fitch
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My parents are both really, really funny, and my little sister is a really good painter, and my other sister is a really good writer.
— Michael Cera
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