Best Good Writer Quotations

97 Good Writer quotes by 82 unique authors

Bucky Katt: A bad writer is just a good writer with writer's block. — Darby Conley
To be a good writer... read a lot and write every day. — Neil Gaiman
Wilbur never forgot Charlotte. Although he loved her children and grandchildren dearly, none of the new spiders ever quite took her place in his heart.… — Elwyn Brooks White
To be a good writer, you not only have to write a great deal but you have to care. You do not have to have… — Anne Lamott
Every good writer I know needs to go into some deep, quiet place to do work that is fully imagined. And what the Internet brings… — Jonathan Franzen
And the good writer chooses his words for their 'meaning', but that meaning is not a a set, cut-off thing like the move of knight… — Ezra Pound
The things that make you a functional citizen in society - manners, discretion, cordiality - don't necessarily make you a good writer. Writing needs raw… — Natalie Goldberg
I think writer is a word without gender, and a good writer observes, absorbs, hopefully empathizes then translates that into character and story. You don’t… — Nora Roberts
The ear is the only true writer and the only true reader. I know people who read without hearing the sentence sounds and they were… — Robert Frost
Imagination? It is the one thing beside honesty that a good writer must have. The more he learns from experience the more he can imagine. — Ernest Hemingway
I'm a good person but a shitty writer. You're a shitty person but a good writer. We'd make a good team. — John Green
If you need drugs to be a good writer, you are not a good writer. — Rod Serling
Writing is physical work. It's sweaty work. You just can't will yourself to become a good writer. You really have to work at it. — Unknown Author
I want to become a very good writer. — Kellie Martin
There is no motivation higher than being a good writer. — Tom Wolfe
I grew up with another pretty darn good writer: Glenn Frey of the Eagles. We were very good friends, and we kind of studied it… — Bob Seger
A good writer can set a thriller anywhere and make it convincing: the trick is to evoke the setting in such a way that it… — Garry Disher
The most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in, shock-proof, shit detector. This is the writer's radar and all great writers have had… — Ernest Hemingway
Its idea of ''production value'' is spending a million dollars dressing up a story that any good writer would throw away. Its vision of the… — Raymond Chandler
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,… — Unknown Author
You cannot be a good writer of serious fiction if you are not depressed. — Kurt Vonnegut Jr
I enjoy writing, and I know that if I can really focus on that and get some good tuturoing in English, I can be a… — Elijah Wood

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