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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 Neil Gaiman Ben Yagoda Ray Bradbury Patricia T. O'Conner Matthew Vaughn Jim Bishop Ann Patchett Kellie Martin David Carr Theodore Sturgeon Mel Brooks John Edgar Wideman Wil Haygood James D. Watson Alexander Pope Richard Ford Aaron Sorkin Moby John Jeremiah Sullivan William Goldman George Henry Lewes Alice McDermott Robert Newton Peck Eric Fellner John Steinbeck Walker Percy Henry Rollins Amy Bloom Karrine Steffans Darby Conley S.M. Stirling Judy Blume
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.
When you combine something to say with the skill to say it properly, then you've got a good writer.
Theodore Sturgeon

10.
My heroes were never scientists. They were Graham Greene and Christopher Isherwood, you know, good writers.
James D. Watson

11.
A good writer sells out everybody he knows, sooner or later.
Alice McDermott

12.
A good writer writes with a camera, not a pen.
Robert Newton Peck

13.
Why has the South produced so many good writers? Because we got beat.
Walker Percy

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

15.
Churchill was a good writer but a bad historian.
Peter Greenaway

16.
A good writer of history is a guy who is suspicious.
Jim Bishop

17.
Being a good writer doesn’t make you a good reporter, it takes hustle.
David Carr

18.
Anybody can direct, but there are only eleven good writers.
Mel Brooks

19.
Since Caesar, we know his historians are liars. The good writers get read. Bad history doesn't get read.
Peter Greenaway

20.
A good writer always works at the impossible.
John Steinbeck

21.
All good writers are sensitive to clichés and endeavor to avoid them
Ben Yagoda

22.
To be a good writer... read a lot and write every day.
Neil Gaiman

23.
Good writers touch life often.
Ray Bradbury

24.
I'll never be a good writer, and no chance of being a good actor.
Matthew Vaughn

25.
You can't be a jerk in order to be a good writer.
Ann Patchett

26.
I really dislike it when people talk about "experimental," because any good writer is experimental.
John Edgar Wideman

27.
I believe no one qualification is so likely to make a good writer, as the power of rejecting his own thoughts.
Alexander Pope

28.
I wouldn't be a very good writer if someone hadn't taught me how to read.
Richard Ford

29.
I don't think I'm a particularly good writer, and I'm not terribly insightful.
Moby

30.
A good writer wants from us — or has no right to ask more than — intelligence, good faith and time.
John Jeremiah Sullivan

31.
Do we have good writers, producers and actors in the U.K.? Yes we do.
Eric Fellner

32.
I'm not a very good writer. I'm working at it.
Henry Rollins

33.
Bucky Katt: A bad writer is just a good writer with writer's block.
Darby Conley

34.
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

35.
A good writer is one you can read without breaking a sweat.
Patricia T. O'Conner

36.
He who is afraid to use an "I" in his writing will never make a good writer.
Lin Yutang