Good writers Quote by David Carr Download Open image “Being a good writer doesn’t make you a good reporter, it takes hustle.” — David Carr ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Good writers Hustle Reporters Writing
My experience as a newspaper reporter was invaluable in terms of getting me to the kind of writing I do now. It gave me… — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
Nowadays I'm not even sure if newspapers take into account whether a person is a good writer. — Bob Schieffer Copy Share Image
A good journalist is not the one that writes what people say, but the one that writes what he is supposed to write. — Todor Zhivkov Copy Share Image
There are two kinds of writers: hustlers and sanctimonious hustlers. — Edward Hoagland Copy Share Image
As a writer I'm merely a journalist who has learned to write better than others. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
I think there are a lot of great journalists out there. I don't find much fault in the journalist in general; I think everybody… — George Clooney Copy Share Image
It's good for a writer to come from journalism because it gives you the tools. A journalist knows that he or she can lose… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
This much we know: Journalism is not a precise science. It's, on its best day, is a crude art. We make mistakes; I make… — Dan Rather Copy Share Image
If a person is not talented enough to be a novelist, not smart enough to be a lawyer, and his hands are too shaky… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
Whatever my critics say, I've been a hard-core journalist all my career. — Jason Whitlock Copy Share Image
Journalists like to talk and write and produce, but the most important part of that process is learning how to listen. And that's what… — Kristen Welker Copy Share Image
Reporters have a different point of view and a different job. Consequently, to the extent that you can help them turn in an interesting… — Roger Ailes Copy Share Image
“This is the point where the knowing, irony-infused author laughs along with his readers about his time among the aphorisms, how he was once… — David Carr Copy Share Image
“The trick of enjoying New York is not to be so busy grinding your way to the center of the earth that you fail… — David Carr Copy Share Image
Keep in mind that when public figures get in trouble for something they said, it is usually not because they misspoke, but because they… — David Carr Copy Share Image
“As I sit today, I am a genuine, often pleasant person. I am able to imitate a human being for long spurts of time,… — David Carr Copy Share Image
We live in an age where there is a firehose of information, and there is no hierarchy of what is important and what is… — David Carr Copy Share Image
“We tell ourselves that we lie to protect others, but the self usually comes out looking damn good in the process.” — David Carr Copy Share Image
“To the extent I am good at anything other than falling down, it is getting back up, at overcoming low expectations—many of them my… — David Carr Copy Share Image
“But I've seen enough to know that we all carry a measure of guilt and innocence among us.” — David Carr Copy Share Image
“[C]ivilians are equally bewildering to the addict. I've watched people drink a glass and a half of wine and push away the rest. What… — David Carr Copy Share Image
“No one is going to give a damn about your résumé; they want to see what you have made with your own little fingers.” — David Carr Copy Share Image
You don't have to be a good person to be a good writer--history shows it's better if you're not--but you have to understand your… — Peter Abrahams Copy Share Image
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… — Lorde Copy Share Image
What makes a good writer of history is a guy who is suspicious. Suspicion marks the real difference between the man who wants to… — Jim Bishop Copy Share Image
Good writers hate bad writing but hating bad writing doesn’t make you good. Writing badly does. — Dan Harmon Copy Share Image
No theoretician, no writer on art, however interesting he or she might be, could be as interesting as Picasso. A good writer on art… — David Hockney Copy Share Image
A good writer does not write as people write, but as he writes. — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Neil [Gaiman, creator of the comic Sandman, featuring the Amos-based character Delirium] believes that faeries have gone beyond cool. They've transcended cool. I just… — Tori Amos Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
If you're really a good writer and deserve that honored position, then by God, you'll write, and you'll be read, and you'll be produced… — Rod Serling Copy Share Image
The good stories, of course, write themselves. And somebody wants to know who are the really good writers, and how many of them there… — R. A. Lafferty Copy Share Image
