Athlete Quote by Norman Mailer

Good writers have two things in common: they prefer to be understood rather than admired; and they do not write for knowing and over-acute…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Not all popular novelists are good, but all good novelists are, sooner or later, popular.

— Dean Koontz

Well, you know when people are no good at anything else they become writers.

— W. Somerset Maugham

Literature is a place for generosity and affection and hunger for equals - not a prizefight ring. We are increased, confirmed in our medium,…

— Tillie Olsen

A good writer is basically a story teller, not a scholar or a redeemer of mankind.

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

Good writing is good writing. In many ways, it’s the audience and their expectations that define a genre. A reader of literary fiction expects…

— Rosemary Clement-Moore

Good novels are not written, they are rewritten. Great novels are diamonds mined from layered rewrites.

— Piers Paul Read

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

Everyone assumes that novelists are smarter and more interesting. They're generally smarter and more interesting, but they're often very short. So it kind of…

— Liev Schreiber

There are some writers who also enjoy being authors, and are good at it as well. There is nothing performative about writing, but there…

— Hanya Yanagihara

Good writing comes from good talent.

— Leonardo da Vinci

Most great writers suffer and have no idea how good they are. Most bad writers are very confident. Be willing to be a child…

— Mary Karr