Books Quote by Stephen Ambrose

You have to go where the good writing is.

— Damian Lewis

When people cannot write good literature it is perhaps natural that they should lay down rules how good literature should be written.

— George Saintsbury

You want to write something as good as what you've read.

— Jodi Picoult

As a writer, you have to first of all write what you want to. Listen to advice, by all means, but don't get bogged…

— Joe Abercrombie

Listen carefully to the feedback your readers give you. Dont write unless people want you to write, a lot of people write just because…

— Max Lucado

For a man to write well, there are required three necessaries: to read the best authors, observe the best speakers, and much exercise of…

— Ben Jonson

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

Good writing is always about things that are important to you, things that are scary to you, things that eat you up.

— John Edgar Wideman

There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.

— W. Somerset Maugham

Writing is like a bird-watcher watching for birds: the stories are there: you just have to train yourself to look for them.

— Barbara Mertz

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

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