What Makes A Good Writer Quotes

#1. What makes a good writer of history is a guy who is suspicious. Suspicion marks the real difference between the man who wants to write honest history and the one who'd rather write a good story.

Jim Bishop

#2. He does not require that we live a perfect life. He only requires that we try to live as He wills. The only way to fail Him is by giving up.

Patricia Davids

#3. I have campaigned all over the state of South Carolina. It is the friendliest state in the country. And truly here people judge you by the content of your character not the color of your skin.

Tim Scott

#4. People become writers in the first place by those things that hurt you into art, as Yeats said it. Then they become separated from what started out affecting them. Journalism forces you to look at the world so you don't get cut off.

Pete Hamill

#5. That's what a writer does; they make things up and that makes for good reading.

Debbie Reynolds

#6. I'm not a good photographer, not a good writer. I'm a pretty regular person whose insecurity is so pervasive that it makes me always feel vulnerable.

Sally Mann

#7. An artist who makes pictures that look good but express nothing is like a writer whose words sound good but have no meaning.

Gerald Brommer

#8. If a writer is any good, what he makes will have its source in a realm much larger than that which his conscious mind can encompass and will always be a greater surprise to him than it can ever be to his reader.

Flannery O'Connor

#9. What has a writer to be bombastic about? Whatever good a man may write is the consequence of accident, luck, or surprise, and nobody is more surprised than an honest writer when he makes a good phrase or says something truthful.

Edward Dahlberg

#10. For the serious mediocre writer convention makes him sound like a lot of other people; for the popular writer it gives him a formula he can exploit; for the serious good writer it releases his experiences or emotions from himself and incorporates them into literature, where they belong.

Northrop Frye

#11. Other writers definitely influence my writing. What encourages me and inspires me is when I read a good book. It makes me want to be a better writer.

Kimberly Willis Holt

#12. I think the writer makes a good story good or a good story bad. The writer has a great deal of responsibility.

Tom Robinson

#13. Grace me no grace, nor uncle me no uncle.

William Shakespeare

#14. Learning how to be a good reader is what makes you a writer.

Zadie Smith

#15. Nowadays the thing which is going to help us in hard times are the books/films... movies.... series... they are filled with such tragedy and horror and everything which you are going to see in real life.

Deyth Banger

#16. But once an idea for a novel seizes a writer ... well, it's like an inner fire that at first warms you and makes you feel good but then begins to eat you alive, burn you up from within. You can't just walk away from the fire; it keeps burning. The only way to put it out is to write the book.

Dean Koontz

#17. Every great or even every very good writer makes the world over according to his own specifications.

Raymond Carver

#18. I'm a writer! If you work in an office, it dampens you. It makes you fit a routine. The effect of being a writer is not dissimilar to being long-term unemployed. And everyone knows that is not good for you.

Mark Haddon

#19. I feel acutely aware of how young I am. In a way that is good. It's productive. It makes me realise that I should be growing as a writer and a person.

Veronica Roth

#20. I think anyone who's not as good a writer as me is absolutely a hack, and I think anybody who's a slightly better writer than me is brilliant. So of course that makes me a horrible critic when it comes to books, because I can't distance my own experience from what I'm doing.

Chuck Klosterman

#21. I love acting it's apart of me and I try to put a little bit of myself in each of my roles.

Michael Clarke Duncan

#22. nevermore will i lie in the wake of your ambivalence

A.P. Sweet

#23. Each artist or writer who works in Venice comes to believe that the city yields its most special secret to him or her alone.

Erica Jong

#24. The body is the inescapable factor, you see. You can keep in good shape for what you are, but radical change is impossible. Health isn't making everybody into a Greek ideal; it's living out the destiny of the body.

Robertson Davies