Good writers Quote by Douglas Bond

True values entail suffering. That’s the way we think. All in all, we tend to view melancholia as more true. We prefer music and…

— Lars von Trier

Nobody has seen the trekking birds take their way towards such warmer spheres as do not exist, or rivers break their course through rocks…

— Isak Dinesen

“Distance can create longing. It can open up the gap into which all must fall.”

— Hari Kunzru

“In the material world below, she always felt lonely and there was nobody to understand her true nature. She always knew that she didn’t…

— Stevan V. Nikolic

“In love, nothing exists between heart and heart. Speech is born out of longing, True description from the real taste. The one who tastes,…

— Anonymous

It is the haunted premises of longing that the true love song inhabits. It is a howl in the void, for love and for…

— Nick Cave

“Good writers don’t moralize, nor do they preach, but they do create longing for the true and the beautiful, and that is why you…

— Douglas Bond

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…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

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

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

Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear.

— Ezra Pound