Good writers Quote by John Steinbeck

A good writer always works at the impossible.

— John Steinbeck

A good writer must be like the birds of a dark forest; you can't see them, but you can hear their mysterious and wise…

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

“The best tool in a writer's arsenal is a reader's imagination.”

— Tim Campbell

A good writer is one you can read without breaking a sweat.

— Patricia T. O'Conner

A great literary work can be completely, completely unpredictable. Which can sometimes make them very hard to read, but it gives them a great…

— Yann Martel

Good writing is full of surprises and novelties, moving in a direction you don't expect.

— Iris Murdoch

How does it happen that a writer who's not even very good - and I can say that, I've read four or five of…

— Stephen King

Even the revolutionary writer will err if he fails to grasp the enormous effectiveness of occasional understatement.

— Heywood Broun

Grabbing readers by the imagination is a writer's job.

— Sara Sheridan

The novelist helps us to see things we might not notice otherwise.

— Madeleine L'Engle

Writing a novel that works is an extremely difficult thing to do. It requires a level of skill and dedication that always surprises me.

— Bret Easton Ellis

Writing a novel in general is like trying to reach a mountain top you'll never quite reach - so you try again and maybe…

— Harlan Coben