Bad Quote by Nick Petrie

There are books full of great writing that don't have very good stories. Read sometimes for the story... don't be like the book-snobs who…

— Stephen King

If you read good books, when you write, good books will come out of you.

— Natalie Goldberg

It's more fun writing bad books than reading good ones.

— Werner Lansburgh

A good book is a good book, and there are a lot of different ways to approach writing or reading one.

— Emily Barton

All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you…

— Ernest Hemingway

Purely the idea of writing a lot of books doesn't make you a great writer, but it might be that the process of doing…

— Walter Mosley

Too many writers think that all you need to do is write well-but that's only part of what a good book is. Above all,…

— Nicholas Sparks

Nothing good gets written without the writer suffering along the way, in my opinion. Writing should be a pleasure, but unless you feel almost…

— Mohsin Hamid

I'm a better writer now because I've worked very hard at getting better. My long-range goal will always be to write better books.

— George Pelecanos

There are three things you need to be a good writer: you need to read a lot, you need to write a lot, and…

— Clay Shirky

“If you want to become a better writer, you have to write. But you also have to read. One of the things I love…

— Kami Garcia

Write what you care about and understand. Writers should never try to outguess the marketplace in search of a salable idea; the simple truth…

— Richard North Patterson