Good writers Quote by S.M. Stirling Download Open image “Bad writers have influences. Good writers steal.” — S.M. Stirling ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Good writers Influence Inspirational Love Stealing Writing
Good writers borrow from other writers. Great writers steal from them outright. — Aaron Sorkin Copy Share Image
There are good writers and bad writers. It's hard to find writers who really speak to you, but the work is out there. — Colson Whitehead 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
I can't lie and say there are no bad writers. Sorry, but there are lots of bad writers. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Bad writers are those who try to express their own feeble ideas in the language of good ones. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
“Myths are lies; but I believe in the power of myths the way I believe in rocks.” — S.M. Stirling Copy Share Image
Love isn't like money--the more you give away the more you get back, and the more you have to give. — S.M. Stirling Copy Share Image
The Mackenzie had never met folk so poor in story and song and legends, and it moved him to a pity that pricked at his eyes. Without that tapestry of colour and words and ritual, what was life but eating and mating, sleeping and moving your bowels? All of them good and necessary, but not enough; and they themselves needed… — S.M. Stirling Copy Share
You can learn by listening, or by getting whacked between the eyes with a two-by-four. I always found listening easier. — S.M. Stirling Copy Share Image
“Clan custom and law held that it was the public declaration of intent and then living together that made a handfasting; the ceremonies simply… — S.M. Stirling Copy Share Image
“″He chose to come onto your land uninvited with a weapon in his hand,″ he said. ″When a man does that, he consents to… — S.M. Stirling Copy Share Image
“It doesn't stop being magic because you can you explain it, Father.” — S.M. Stirling Copy Share Image
“Who dares, wins,” he muttered to himself. “Or gets royally banged about if things go south.” — S.M. Stirling Copy Share Image
“Being ignorant is truly bliss compared to being misinformed, especially if you’re aware of the depths of your own ignorance. As Mother says, it… — S.M. Stirling Copy Share Image
“Be your own judge. But commit no trespass, remembering that where another's liberty begins your own inevitably meets its boundary.” — S.M. Stirling Copy Share Image
“Sure it is that They have many faces. All the shapes the Divine shows us are true; and none are all the Truth.” — S.M. Stirling Copy Share Image
“I like you, Mike. I just wanted to know about you.” He grinned and finished building the fire. “OK, point taken, and I like… — S.M. Stirling 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 think alternate realities make you a good writer. If your work is any more than one dimension, you believe in faeries. I'm sure I'll start thinking now about all the people I know who don't believe,… — Tori Amos Copy Share
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
