Good story Quote by Lawrence Watt-Evans

There is no idea so brilliant or original that a sufficiently-untalented writer can't screw it up.

— Raymond E. Feist

I've found that writers who don't read really can't write.

— Sylvia Day

With fiction, there’s no reason why everything you write shouldn’t be amazing. Nobody’s stopping you from making up better stuff.

— Wells Tower

The story is always better than your ability to write it.

— Robin McKinley

God gets the great stories. Novelists must make do with more mundane fictions.

— Richard Flanagan

Many writers are afraid of writing something bad, so they dont try or give up when their efforts dont lead to a masterpiece right…

— Lauren Tarshis

“Good writers are avid readers. They have absorbed a vast inventory of words, idioms, constructions, tropes, and rhetorical tricks,”

— Steven Pinker

I find that most people know what a story is until they sit down to write one.

— Flannery O'Connor

Many writers are afraid of writing something bad, so they don't try or give up when their efforts don't lead to a masterpiece right…

— Lauren Tarshis

It takes a lot of bad writing to get to a little good writing.

— Truman Capote

You can't be a good writer without being a good thinker.

— Andy Rooney

Writing is hard work. Generating stories that catch people's attention and holding it are very difficult.

— David Ogden Stiers