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Writing is physical work. It's sweaty work. You just can't will yourself to become a good writer. You really have to work at it.
Wil Haygood
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A good writer is not someone who knows how to write- but how to rewrite
William Goldman
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Good writers borrow from other writers. Great writers steal from them outright.
Aaron Sorkin
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You can't be a good writer without being a good thinker.
Andy Rooney
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There is no such thing as a good writer and a bad liar.
Amy Bloom
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A good writer is always a people watcher.
Judy Blume
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Bad writers have influences. Good writers steal.
S.M. Stirling
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Why has the South produced so many good writers? Because we got beat.
Walker Percy
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When you combine something to say with the skill to say it properly, then you've got a good writer.
Theodore Sturgeon
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My heroes were never scientists. They were Graham Greene and Christopher Isherwood, you know, good writers.
James D. Watson
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A good writer sells out everybody he knows, sooner or later.
Alice McDermott
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A good writer of history is a guy who is suspicious.
Jim Bishop
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Being a good writer doesn’t make you a good reporter, it takes hustle.
David Carr
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Anybody can direct, but there are only eleven good writers.
Mel Brooks
20.
Since Caesar, we know his historians are liars. The good writers get read. Bad history doesn't get read.
Peter Greenaway
21.
Do we have good writers, producers and actors in the U.K.? Yes we do.
Eric Fellner
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Bucky Katt: A bad writer is just a good writer with writer's block.
Darby Conley
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Any good writer is going to be well-received and is going to not be well-received; that's how you know you're a great writer.
Karrine Steffans
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He who is afraid to use an "I" in his writing will never make a good writer.
Lin Yutang
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All good writers are sensitive to clichés and endeavor to avoid them
Ben Yagoda
28.
To be a good writer... read a lot and write every day.
Neil Gaiman
30.
I'll never be a good writer, and no chance of being a good actor.
Matthew Vaughn
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You can't be a jerk in order to be a good writer.
Ann Patchett
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I really dislike it when people talk about "experimental," because any good writer is experimental.
John Edgar Wideman
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I believe no one qualification is so likely to make a good writer, as the power of rejecting his own thoughts.
Alexander Pope
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I wouldn't be a very good writer if someone hadn't taught me how to read.
Richard Ford
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I don't think I'm a particularly good writer, and I'm not terribly insightful.
Moby
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A good writer wants from us — or has no right to ask more than — intelligence, good faith and time.
John Jeremiah Sullivan