Good Writers Quotes

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.

A good writer is not someone who knows how to write- but how to rewrite

Good writers borrow from other writers. Great writers steal from them outright.

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

Good writers are of necessity rare.

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

A good writer is always a people watcher.

Bad writers have influences. Good writers steal.

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

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

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

A good writer writes with a camera, not a pen.

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

I want to become a very good writer.

Churchill was a good writer but a bad historian.

A good writer of history is a guy who is suspicious.

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

Since Caesar, we know his historians are liars. The good writers get read. Bad history doesn't get read.

Anybody can direct, but there are only eleven good writers.

A good writer always works at the impossible.

A good writer is one you can read without breaking a sweat.

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

All good writers are sensitive to clichés and endeavor to avoid them

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

Good writers touch life often.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.