Good Writers Quotes

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.

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

Good writers are of necessity rare.

A good writer is always a people watcher.

There is no such thing as a good writer and a bad liar.

Bad writers have influences. Good writers steal.

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.

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.

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

I want to become a very good writer.

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.

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

A good writer always works at the impossible.

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

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

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

Good writers touch life often.

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

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

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