Good Writer Quotes

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

Good, Friends, Spirit

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

Good, True, Someone

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

Good, Honest, Writer

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

Good, Story, Writer

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

Good, Write, Writer

A good writer is not, per se, a good book critic. No more so than a good drunk is automatically a good bartender.
Jim Bishop

Good, Drunk, Book

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.
Bruce Springsteen

Good, Care, Job

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

Good, Help, Cannot

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.
Alan Alda

Good, Writing, Try

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.
Jonathan Safran Foer

Good, Smart, Loneliness

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

Life, Good, Nice

Nowadays I'm not even sure if newspapers take into account whether a person is a good writer.
Bob Schieffer

Good, Person, Sure

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

Good, Book, Writing

I think my job is to try and be as honest as I can with what is in my mind and how I feel - I think that's what you're supposed to do, if you're a good writer. So I try to do that. I know I do that. I do do that.
Paul Thomas Anderson

Good, Mind, Job

Disney was not a good animator, he didn't draw well at all, but he was always a great idea man, and a good writer.
Chuck Jones

Good, Great, Idea

When you combine something to say with the skill to say it properly, then you've got a good writer.
Theodore Sturgeon

Good, Writer, Skill

Good writers define reality; bad ones merely restate it. A good writer turns fact into truth; a bad writer will, more often than not, accomplish the opposite.
Edward Albee

Good, Truth, Bad

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

Good, Chance, Actor

I'm not a very good writer, but I'm an excellent rewriter.
James A. Michener

Good, Writer, Excellent

A good writer is always a people watcher.
Judy Blume

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

Good, Great, Hope

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