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Good Writer Quotes

A good writer can set a thriller anywhere and make it convincing: the trick is to evoke the setting in such a way that it highlights the crime or unsettles the reader Picture Quote #1

Anyone who can only write about themselves or their life experiences, in my mind, isn’t a very good writer Picture Quote #1

Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear Picture Quote #1

Good writers are often excellent at a hundred other things, but writing promises a greater latitude for the ego Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

The good writers touch life often. The mediocre ones run a quick hand over her. The bad ones rape her and leave her for the flies Picture Quote #1

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I’d like to have money. And I’d like to be a good writer. These two can come together, and I hope they will, but if that’s too adorable, I’d rather have money Picture Quote #1

Why do I write? It’s not that I want people to think I am smart, or even that I am a good writer. I write because I want to end my loneliness Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

Every good writer or filmmaker has something eating at them, right? That they can’t quite get off their back. And so your job is to make your audience care about your obsessions Picture Quote #1

Imagination? It is the one thing beside honesty that a good writer must have. The more he learns from experience the more he can imagine Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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Any hack can safely rail away at foreign powers beyond the sea; but a good writer is a critic of the society he lives in Picture Quote #1

Nothing can destroy the good writer. The only thing that can alter the good writer is death. Good ones don’t have time to bother with success or getting rich Picture Quote #1

A good writer is an expert on nothing except himself. And on that subject, if he is wise, he holds his tongue Picture Quote #1

Appealing to the five senses is the feature that will always set writing apart from the visual media. A good writer will tell us what the world smells like, what the textures are, what the sounds are, what the light looks like, what the weather is Picture Quote #1

A good writer should be able to write comedic work that made you laugh, and scary stuff that made you scared, and fantasy or science fiction that imbued you with a sense of wonder, and mainstream journalism that gave you clear and concise information in a way that you wanted it Picture Quote #1

To be a good writer, you not only have to write a great deal but you have to care. You do not have to have a complicated moral philosophy. But a writer always tries, I think, to be a part of a solution, to understand a little about life and to pass this on Picture Quote #1

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The ear is the only true writer and the only true reader. I know people who read without hearing the sentence sounds and they were the fastest readers. Eye readers we call them. They get the meaning by glances. But they are bad readers because they miss the best part of what a good writer puts into his work Picture Quote #1

When I started the paperback market, there were only a few good writers, now the market’s loaded... You don’t know which one to take Picture Quote #1

And I think a good writer’s gonna make it interesting. From the first paragraph it will all be interesting. Just work at it and work at it and work at it Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

A good writer cannot avoid having social consciousness. I don’t mean this about small pieces of writing, but about a big book. If it’s a big book, there has to be more than one undertow Picture Quote #1

I retained no records and I am not a good writer anyhow. So the best approach is for historians like you to extract the facts directly from people like me Picture Quote #1

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A good writer is not necessarily a good book critic. No more so than a good drunk is automatically a good bartender Picture Quote #1

A good reader is nearly as rare as a good writer. People bring their prejudices, whether friendly or adverse. They are lamp and spectacles, lighting and magnifying the page Picture Quote #1

There is a natural disposition with us to judge an author’s personal character by the character of his works. We find it difficult to understand the common antithesis of a good writer and a bad man Picture Quote #1

It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer. Charlotte was both Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

A good writer gets better only by learning to cut, to remove the ornamental, the descriptive, the narrative, and especially the deeply felt and meaningful. What remains? The story remains Picture Quote #1

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A good writer can set a thriller anywhere and make it convincing: the trick is to evoke the setting in such a way that it highlights the crime or unsettles the reader (Good Writer Quotes) Anyone who can only write about themselves or their life experiences, in my mind, isn’t a very good writer (Good Writer Quotes) Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear (Good Writer Quotes) Good writers are often excellent at a hundred other things, but writing promises a greater latitude for the ego (Good Writer Quotes) 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 Writer Quotes) The good writers touch life often. The mediocre ones run a quick hand over her. The bad ones rape her and leave her for the flies (Good Writer Quotes) I’d like to have money. And I’d like to be a good writer. These two can come together, and I hope they will, but if that’s too adorable, I’d rather have money (Good Writer Quotes) Why do I write? It’s not that I want people to think I am smart, or even that I am a good writer. I write because I want to end my loneliness (Good Writer Quotes) 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 (Good Writer Quotes) Every good writer or filmmaker has something eating at them, right? That they can’t quite get off their back. And so your job is to make your audience care about your obsessions (Good Writer Quotes) Imagination? It is the one thing beside honesty that a good writer must have. The more he learns from experience the more he can imagine (Good Writer Quotes) 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 (Good Writer Quotes) Any hack can safely rail away at foreign powers beyond the sea; but a good writer is a critic of the society he lives in (Good Writer Quotes) Nothing can destroy the good writer. The only thing that can alter the good writer is death. Good ones don’t have time to bother with success or getting rich (Good Writer Quotes) A good writer is an expert on nothing except himself. And on that subject, if he is wise, he holds his tongue (Good Writer Quotes) Appealing to the five senses is the feature that will always set writing apart from the visual media. A good writer will tell us what the world smells like, what the textures are, what the sounds are, what the light looks like, what the weather is (Good Writer Quotes) A good writer should be able to write comedic work that made you laugh, and scary stuff that made you scared, and fantasy or science fiction that imbued you with a sense of wonder, and mainstream journalism that gave you clear and concise information in a way that you wanted it (Good Writer Quotes) To be a good writer, you not only have to write a great deal but you have to care. You do not have to have a complicated moral philosophy. But a writer always tries, I think, to be a part of a solution, to understand a little about life and to pass this on (Good Writer Quotes) The ear is the only true writer and the only true reader. I know people who read without hearing the sentence sounds and they were the fastest readers. Eye readers we call them. They get the meaning by glances. But they are bad readers because they miss the best part of what a good writer puts into his work (Good Writer Quotes) When I started the paperback market, there were only a few good writers, now the market’s loaded... You don’t know which one to take (Good Writer Quotes) And I think a good writer’s gonna make it interesting. From the first paragraph it will all be interesting. Just work at it and work at it and work at it (Good Writer Quotes) 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 (Good Writer Quotes) A good writer cannot avoid having social consciousness. I don’t mean this about small pieces of writing, but about a big book. If it’s a big book, there has to be more than one undertow (Good Writer Quotes) I retained no records and I am not a good writer anyhow. So the best approach is for historians like you to extract the facts directly from people like me (Good Writer Quotes) A good writer is not necessarily a good book critic. No more so than a good drunk is automatically a good bartender (Good Writer Quotes) A good reader is nearly as rare as a good writer. People bring their prejudices, whether friendly or adverse. They are lamp and spectacles, lighting and magnifying the page (Good Writer Quotes) There is a natural disposition with us to judge an author’s personal character by the character of his works. We find it difficult to understand the common antithesis of a good writer and a bad man (Good Writer Quotes) It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer. Charlotte was both (Good Writer Quotes) 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 (Good Writer Quotes) A good writer gets better only by learning to cut, to remove the ornamental, the descriptive, the narrative, and especially the deeply felt and meaningful. What remains? The story remains (Good Writer Quotes)

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