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Good Writers Quotes

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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

Authors on Good Writers Quotes: Peter Greenaway Richard Ford Aaron Sorkin Moby William Goldman John Jeremiah Sullivan George Henry Lewes Alice McDermott Robert Newton Peck Eric Fellner Walker Percy John Steinbeck Henry Rollins Amy Bloom Karrine Steffans Darby Conley S.M. Stirling Judy Blume Lin Yutang Andy Rooney Neil Gaiman Ben Yagoda Ray Bradbury Patricia T. O'Conner Matthew Vaughn Ann Patchett Jim Bishop Kellie Martin David Carr Theodore Sturgeon Mel Brooks Wil Haygood John Edgar Wideman
2.
A good writer is not someone who knows how to write- but how to rewrite
William Goldman

3.
Good writers borrow from other writers. Great writers steal from them outright.
Aaron Sorkin

4.
You can't be a good writer without being a good thinker.
Andy Rooney

5.
Good writers are of necessity rare.
George Henry Lewes

6.
There is no such thing as a good writer and a bad liar.
Amy Bloom

7.
A good writer is always a people watcher.
Judy Blume

8.
Bad writers have influences. Good writers steal.
S.M. Stirling

9.
A good writer sells out everybody he knows, sooner or later.
Alice McDermott

10.
A good writer writes with a camera, not a pen.
Robert Newton Peck

11.
Why has the South produced so many good writers? Because we got beat.
Walker Percy

12.
When you combine something to say with the skill to say it properly, then you've got a good writer.
Theodore Sturgeon

13.
My heroes were never scientists. They were Graham Greene and Christopher Isherwood, you know, good writers.
James D. Watson

14.
I want to become a very good writer.
Kellie Martin

15.
A good writer always works at the impossible.
John Steinbeck

16.
Churchill was a good writer but a bad historian.
Peter Greenaway

17.
A good writer of history is a guy who is suspicious.
Jim Bishop

18.
Being a good writer doesn’t make you a good reporter, it takes hustle.
David Carr

19.
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.
I wouldn't be a very good writer if someone hadn't taught me how to read.
Richard Ford

22.
I don't think I'm a particularly good writer, and I'm not terribly insightful.
Moby

23.
A good writer wants from us — or has no right to ask more than — intelligence, good faith and time.
John Jeremiah Sullivan

24.
Do we have good writers, producers and actors in the U.K.? Yes we do.
Eric Fellner

25.
I'm not a very good writer. I'm working at it.
Henry Rollins

26.
Bucky Katt: A bad writer is just a good writer with writer's block.
Darby Conley

27.
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

28.
A good writer is one you can read without breaking a sweat.
Patricia T. O'Conner

29.
He who is afraid to use an "I" in his writing will never make a good writer.
Lin Yutang

30.
All good writers are sensitive to clichés and endeavor to avoid them
Ben Yagoda

31.
To be a good writer... read a lot and write every day.
Neil Gaiman

32.
Good writers touch life often.
Ray Bradbury

33.
I'll never be a good writer, and no chance of being a good actor.
Matthew Vaughn

34.
You can't be a jerk in order to be a good writer.
Ann Patchett

35.
I really dislike it when people talk about "experimental," because any good writer is experimental.
John Edgar Wideman

36.
I believe no one qualification is so likely to make a good writer, as the power of rejecting his own thoughts.
Alexander Pope