40 Good Writer Quotes for You to Enjoy

It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer. E. B. White

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There is no motivation higher than being a good writer. Tom Wolfe

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Although I write screenplays, I don't think I'm a very good writer. George Lucas

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What I always wanted to get seen as was as a good actor, when it was the acting I was doing. When I'm writing, I want to try to be seen as a good writer. Not as somebody with a particular idea to sell, or something like that. Alan Alda

Admiration from my readers inspire me, and the only 'formula' I believe in towards making a good writer is: 'to thine own self be true!' Ashwin Sanghi

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A whole bunch of agents and editors looked at my stories, and they all said, in effect, 'You're a pretty good writer and you should probably get these published; when you grow up and write a novel, get in touch.' Bob Shacochis

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A good writer knows that if her style and perceptions are really cooking, she can bring anything off. It's okay, of course, for novelists to depict bland, average families living bland, average lives in bland, average towns. But it isn't okay when those novelists don't outshine their bland, average subjects. Darin Strauss

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I wasn't a very good writer before college. I don't think I was a very good reader. DeRay Mckesson

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A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends. Friedrich Nietzsche

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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. Garry Disher

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There's a really nice moment in the life of a piece of writing where the writer starts to get a feeling of it outgrowing him - or he starts to see it having a life of its own that doesn't have anything to do with his ego or his desire to 'be a good writer.' George Saunders

I had to take a big risk by writing my young adult book series 'The A Circuit' and putting myself out there in that way. I don't consider myself a good writer, so I had to rely on a co-writer. Still, I knew that people would judge me and my writing. I am really proud of the way the series turned out. Georgina Bloomberg

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A good writer is basically a story teller, not a scholar or a redeemer of mankind. Isaac Bashevis Singer

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I want to be an honest man and a good writer. James Baldwin

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My Girl Scout leader. She told me if I listened more and talked less, I could grow up to be a good writer. I thought that was interesting advice at age 12. Judith Viorst

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

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A good journalist, as you know, is a great listener. And so's a good writer. And I got to listen to people for almost 20 years. That serves me well, I hope, when I try to understand how a character might be feeling, or how they might react. Louise Penny

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I don't think I'm a brilliant writer, but I'm a good writer, and it's just so empowering to get involved. Maggie Gyllenhaal

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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. Marguerite Young

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You cannot teach creativity - how to become a good writer. But you can help a young writer discover within himself what kind of writer he would like to be. Mario Vargas Llosa

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

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