Being nice Quote by Marty Nemko

I've grown more and more appreciative of good writing, and I now really hope I can become a better and better writer.

— James Lapine

Other writers definitely influence my writing. What encourages me and inspires me is when I read a good book. It makes me want to…

— Kimberly Willis Holt

the only way to become a better writer is to become a better person.

— Brenda Ueland

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

The positive thing about writing is that you connect with yourself in the deepest way. You get a chance to know who you are,…

— Natalie Goldberg

I'm not sure that niceness is what we should promote in writers.

— Lorrie Moore

You have to be an extremely good reader to appreciate what a good writer is. There are some people who are completely insensitive to…

— Robert Caro

Being a writer is a good, good thing.

— Shannon Hale

To try to write better than you do now is to risk rejection and failure. But not to risk those things in an insult…

— LouAnne Johnson

Good writing comes from good talent.

— Leonardo da Vinci

I do increasingly feel like becoming a better writer is about trying to find new ways to solve the same problems over and over…

— Mike Young

Part of living, part of becoming a wise man or a wise woman, is to get to that point where you can have a…

— Norman Mailer