Best Good Writers Quotes
46 Good Writers quotes by 43 unique authors
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Five common traits of good writers: (1) They have something to say. (2) They read widely and have done so since childhood. (3) They possess…
— James J. Kilpatrick
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What's not realized about good novelists is that they're as competitive as good athletes. They study each other - where the other person is good…
— Norman Mailer
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Indeed, I am repeatedly astonished by the number of really good writers who understand human beings so well on paper but don't know how to…
— Mark Haddon
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Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear.
— Ezra Pound
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I knew I would read all kinds of books and try to get at what it is that makes good writers good. But I made…
— Carl Sandburg
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Good writers borrow from other writers. Great writers steal from them outright.
— Aaron Sorkin
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My heroes were never scientists. They were Graham Greene and Christopher Isherwood, you know, good writers.
— James D. Watson
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The good writers touch life often. The mediocre ones run a quick hand over her. The bad ones rape her and leave her for the…
— Ray Bradbury
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All the good writers of confessions, from Augustine onwards, are men who are still a little in love with their sins.
— Anatole France
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There is this thing called the university, and everybody goes there now. And there are these things called teachers who make students read this book…
— Kurt Vonnegut
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Good writers have two things in common: they prefer to be understood rather than admired; and they do not write for knowing and over-acute readers.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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When people say to me, 'Why are you so good at writing at women?' I say, 'Why isn't everybody?' Obviously there are differences between men…
— Joss Whedon
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Good writers touch life often.
— Ray Bradbury
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Everybody walks past a thousand story ideas every day. The good writers are the ones who see five or six of them. Most people don't…
— Orson Scott Card
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I find that with any good run on a show with good writers, they put something on paper, and you put something back on film,…
— Dallas Roberts
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In the hands of good writers, you have the opportunity to present both sides of an opinion equally and that you leave it to the…
— Mandy Patinkin
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Do we have good writers, producers and actors in the U.K.? Yes we do.
— Eric Fellner
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Good writers know that crime is an entre into telling a greater story about character. Good crime writing holds up a mirror to the readers…
— Karin Slaughter
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I always think that good writers should be growing up on the brink of death - it really lets them see mortality very clearly.
— Gary Shteyngart
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That has to remain the principal reason for doing it, doesn't it? I know it's possible to write for money, and many very good writers…
— Jonathan Kellerman
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