Good writers Quote by Lin Yutang Download Open image “He who is afraid to use an "I" in his writing will never make a good writer.” — Lin Yutang ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Good writers Use Writing
I think that like all writers - and if any writer disagrees with this, then he is not a writer - I write primarily… — Guillermo Cabrera Infante Copy Share Image
This evening I begin a notebook. If anyone reads this, I trust they will forgive my overuse of "I". I can't stop it. I'm… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
A novelist can never be his own reader, except when he is ridding his manuscript of syntax errors, repetitions, or the occasional superfluous paragraph. — Patrick Modiano Copy Share Image
One cannot choose what he writes - one can only choose to face it. — Luigi Pirandello Copy Share Image
“The man who never reads will never be read; he who never quotes will never be quoted. He who will not use the thoughts… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
A good writer does not write as people write, but as he writes. — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
A writer is rarely so well inspired as when he talks about himself. — Anatole France Copy Share Image
I very much like the idea of the unreliable narrator. Shaping my fictions as monologues - by introducing the "I" - allows me to… — Norman Lock Copy Share Image
It is one test of a fully developed writer that he reminds us of no one but himself. — Melvin Maddocks Copy Share Image
There are no books in this world that everybody must read, but only books that a person must read at a certain time in… — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
And if the reader has no taste for what he reads, all the time is wasted — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
“Much as I like reasonable persons, I hate completely rational beings. For that reason, I am always scared and ill at ease when I… — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
The best that we can hope for in this life is that we shall not have sons and grandsons of whom we need to… — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
By association with nature's enormities, a man's heart may truly grow big also. — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
Now it is characteristic of play that one plays without reason and there must be no reason for it. Play is its own good… — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
I like spring, but it is too young. I like summer, but it is too proud. So I like best of all autumn, because… — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
Hope is like a road in the country; there was never a road, but when many people walk on it, the road comes into… — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
Is it not tragic, for example, that while in the last World War almost everyone believed it was the war to end all wars… — Lin Yutang 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
