Best Good Writer Quotes

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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
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
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
When you combine something to say with the skill to say it properly, then you've got a good writer. — Theodore Sturgeon
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
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
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
A good writer is always a people watcher. — Judy Blume
A good writer always works at the impossible. — John Steinbeck
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
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
When a good writer is having fun, the audience is almost always having fun too. — Stephen King
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
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.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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