Good writers Quote by Richard Ford Download Open image “I wouldn't be a very good writer if someone hadn't taught me how to read.” — Richard Ford ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Good writers Ifs Taught Very good Writing
I wasn't a very good writer before college. I don't think I was a very good reader. — DeRay Mckesson Copy Share Image
If you want to be a good writer, make sure you read. I'm amazed by how many people don't bother to do that. — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
Most writers write books that they wouldn't read. I ought to know; I've done it myself. — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
If the writer were more like a reader, he’d be a reader, not a writer. It’s as uncomplicated as that. — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
I wouldn't have wanted anyone to teach me how to write. That's my own taste. I prefer to stumble on it. — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
Unless you're a terribly bad writer, you are never going to have too many readers. — Andrew Wylie Copy Share Image
Something will be there when the flood recedes. We know that. It will be those people now standing in the water, and on those… — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
I started reading literature at 17 or 18, and I felt this extra beat to life. — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
I don't hate children. My wife and I just didn't think we would be good parents, and also by the time we got married… — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
Writing never came naturally and I still have to force my hand to do it. — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
“Conversations with adults other than a person's parents had more of an outcome.” — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
Some people want to be bank presidents. Other people want to rob banks. — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
In order to write novels for a living - it's not pathological, but I do think and worry and brood and fidget about stuff… — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
There are more people in America that love guns and want guns for themselves and everyone else than there are not. It is also… — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
I'm an equal opportunity reader - although I don't much read plays. And since I was raised a Presbyterian, pretty much all pleasures are… — Richard Ford 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
I'm not famous for my back story investigations; I'm lucky that I work with good writers and it's usually in the script. — Bill Nighy 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
My grandfather had been a newspaper reporter, as was my uncle. They were pretty good writers and so I thought maybe somewhere down the… — Gene Hackman 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
Well, you know when people are no good at anything else they become writers. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear. — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
