Good Writers Quotes

Good Writers Quote of the day

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.

Good writers are in the business of leaving signposts saying, Tour my world, see and feel it through my eyes; I am your guide.

Everybody walks past a thousand story ideas every day. The good writers are the ones who see five or six of them. Most people don't see any.

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

Good writers define reality; bad ones merely restate it.

Good writers are of necessity rare.

Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear.

A good writer is always a people watcher.

I knew I would read all kinds of books and try to get at what it is that makes good writers good. But I made no promises that I would write books a lot of people would like to read.

Good writers are monotonous, like good composers. They keep trying to perfect the one problem they were born to understand.

Bad writers have influences. Good writers steal.

Good writers are often excellent at a hundred other things, but writing promises a greater latitude for the ego.

Good writers are visible just behind their words.

You do an awful lot of bad writing in order to do any good writing. Incredibly bad. I think it would be very interesting to make a collection of some of the worst writing by good writers.

My grandfather had been a newspaper reporter, as was my uncle. They were pretty good writers and so I thought maybe somewhere down the line I would do some writing.

Good writers define reality; bad ones merely restate it. A good writer turns fact into truth; a bad writer will, more often than not, accomplish the opposite.

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

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

On the other hand, at some level the mass of unresolved issues in Northern Ireland does influence the fact that there are so many good writers in the place.

I have friends, some of whom are spectacularly good writers, who really want someone to edit them. I don't register that impulse. It's like the impulse for wanting a dog.

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

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

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

I want to become a very good writer.

Stargate by far is the top of the pile when it comes to Sci-Fi. The quality is great. They have really good writers, production design, lighting, wardrobe.

Good writers show rather than tell. Stories are told in action. Life stories are no different.

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

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

Good writers have two things in common: they prefer to be understood rather than admired; and they do not write for knowing and over-acute readers.

A good writer always works at the impossible.

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

Usually people who do bad things make good writers.I did a lot of bad things, which is why my novels are interesting.

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

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

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

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

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

When the fad changed from folk to rock, they didn't take along any good writers.

I regard posterity as vulgar as success. I don't trust posterity. I don't think what's good is necessarily recognized in the long run. Too many good writers have disappeared.

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

Churchill was a good writer but a bad historian.

I think that money is devoted to serious journalism, with analysis, interestingly presented, by good writers can still sell newspapers.

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

Good writers touch life often.

All good writers express the state of their souls, even (as occurs in some cases of very good writers) if it is a state of damnation.

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.

This branch of mathematics [Probability] is the only one, I believe, in which good writers frequently get results which are entirely erroneous.

I was able to work out all sorts of attitudes to style and event and character, all of which affected the way I came to think about my own writing. I believe that all good writers are original.