Good Writers Quotes

All good writers across the board, if they're dealing with real tragedy, they will give you comedy in it. And if they're dealing with real comedy, there will be tragic moments in it.

Good writers hate bad writing but hating bad writing doesn’t make you good. Writing badly does.

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

I'm not famous for my back story investigations; I'm lucky that I work with good writers and it's usually in the script.

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

All good writers speak in honest voices and tell the truth.

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

I always think that good writers should be growing up on the brink of death - it really lets them see mortality very clearly.

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

Most writers write to say something about other people - and it doesn't last. Good writers write to find out about themselves - and it lasts forever.

Good writers will, indeed, do well to imitate the ingenious traveller. . .who always proportions his stay in any place.

There are some good songs, but not the kind of song-writing that I remember, that I like. Springsteen still does it. Paul Simon, and there are also good writers, but that doesn't dominate the charts.

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

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

All the good writers of confessions, from Augustine onwards, are men who are still a little in love with their sins.

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

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

Indeed, I am repeatedly astonished by the number of really good writers who understand human beings so well on paper but don't know how to deal with them in real life.

Two easy steps to be a good writer:1. Don't write what everyone is writing.2. Write what everyone is trying to write.