Good Writers Quotes
46 quotes by 43 authors
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Anybody can direct, but there are only eleven good writers.
— Mel Brooks
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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
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I don't think that there are very many good writers who don't live without a sense of tension. If they haven't got one immediately available…
— John le Carre
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So many interviews, even ones that I consider really intelligent and good writers, will do the, like, 'Oh, you're not taking your clothes off like…
— Lorde
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Good writers define reality; bad ones merely restate it.
— Edward Albee
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Good writers are in the business of leaving signposts saying, Tour my world, see and feel it through my eyes; I am your guide.
— Larry L. King
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Good writers are visible just behind their words.
— William Zinsser
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I've always thought that a lot of really good writers go wrong by getting so into the craft and the technique and perfection. Perfection can…
— Patterson Hood
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Stargate by far is the top of the pile when it comes to Sci-Fi. The quality is great. They have really good writers, production design,…
— Corin Nemec
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Most writers write to say something about other people - and it doesn't last. Good writers write to find out about themselves - and it…
— Gloria Steinem
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Good writers are of necessity rare.
— George Henry Lewes
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On the other hand, at some level the mass of unresolved issues in Northern Ireland does influence the fact that there are so many good…
— Paul Muldoon
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Good writers are often excellent at a hundred other things, but writing promises a greater latitude for the ego.
— John Cheever
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Good writers are monotonous, like good composers. They keep trying to perfect the one problem they were born to understand.
— Alberto Moravia
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The good stories, of course, write themselves. And somebody wants to know who are the really good writers, and how many of them there are.…
— R. A. Lafferty
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Bad writers have influences. Good writers steal.
— S.M. Stirling
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Usually people who do bad things make good writers.I did a lot of bad things, which is why my novels are interesting.
— Jakucho Setouchi
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I regard posterity as vulgar as success. I don't trust posterity. I don't think what's good is necessarily recognized in the long run. Too many…
— Peter Biskind
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You do an awful lot of bad writing in order to do any good writing. Incredibly bad. I think it would be very interesting to…
— William S. Burroughs
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All good writers express the state of their souls, even (as occurs in some cases of very good writers) if it is a state of…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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