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“Every good writer I know needs to go into some deep, quiet place to do work that is fully imagined. And what the Internet brings is lots of vulgar data. It is the antithesis of the imagination. It leaves nothing to the imagination.”

Knows Needs Imagination Internet Quiet Data Vulgar Good Writers Antithesis Quiet Place

Author:Jonathan Franzen

“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.”

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Author:Alan Alda

“And the good writer chooses his words for their 'meaning', but that meaning is not a a set, cut-off thing like the move of knight or pawn on a chess-board. It comes up with roots, with associations, with how and where the word is familiarly used, or where it has been used brilliantly or memorably.”

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Author:Ezra Pound

“The things that make you a functional citizen in society - manners, discretion, cordiality - don't necessarily make you a good writer. Writing needs raw truth, wants your suffering and darkness on the table, revels in a cutting mind that takes no prisoners.”

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Book:Old Friend from Far Away: The Practice of Writing Memoir

Source: Old Friend from Far Away: The Practice of Writing Memoir

“The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.”

Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“I think writer is a word without gender, and a good writer observes, absorbs, hopefully empathizes then translates that into character and story. You don’t have to do or be or have experienced, traveled to, but you have to imagine all of that, very well–and believe it completely during the bubble of the work.”

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Author:Nora Roberts

“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.”

People Knows Eye Sound Missing Reader Ears Hearing Sentences Glances Good Writers

Book:The Letters of Robert Frost

Source: The Letters of Robert Frost

“Good writers have two things in common: they prefer to be understood rather than admired; and they do not write for knowing and over-acute readers.”

Writing Two Common Knowing Reader Understood Two Things Good Writers

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“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.”

Imagination Imagine One Thing Honesty Good Writers Learning Experience

Book:By-Line Ernest Hemingway: Selected Articles and Dispatches of Four Decades

Source: By-Line Ernest Hemingway: Selected Articles and Dispatches of Four Decades

“I'm a good person but a shitty writer. You're a shitty person but a good writer. We'd make a good team.”

Persons Team Good Person Good Writers Good Team Hazel Grace Fault In Our Stars

Book:The Fault in Our Stars

Source: The Fault in Our Stars

“When people say to me, 'Why are you so good at writing at women?' I say, 'Why isn't everybody?' Obviously there are differences between men and women - that's what makes it all fun. But we're all people. There's a lot of good writers who are very humanist, but still manage to kind of skip fifty-five per cent of the race. And I just don't get that. Not to be able to write an entire gender? To me, the question isn't how do you do it? It's how can you possibly avoid doing it?”

People Men Writing Kind Stills Able Fun Differences Race Five Men And Women Gender Manage Fifty Humanist Cents Skip Good Writers Differences Between Man And Woman

Author:Joss Whedon

“Good writers touch life often.”

Good Writers

Book:Fahrenheit 451: A Novel

Source: Fahrenheit 451: A Novel

“I don't think that there are very many good writers who don't live without a sense of tension. If they haven't got one immediately available to them, then they usually manage to manufacture it in their private lives.”

Ifs Thinking Havens Available Manage Tension Private Life Good Writers

Author:John le Carre

“If you need drugs to be a good writer, you are not a good writer.”

Ifs Needs Drug Good Writers Twilight Zone

Author:Rod Serling

“If you have other things in your life-family, friends, good productive day work-these can interact with your writing and the sum will be all the richer.”

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Author:David Brin

“Anecdotes don't make good stories. Generally I dig down underneath them so far that the story that finally comes out is not what people thought their anecdotes were about.”

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Author:Alice Munro

“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.”

“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.”

Writing Working It Good Writers

Author:Wil Haygood

“If you read good books, when you write, good books will come out of you.”

Ifs Writing Book Good Book Good Writers

Book:Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within

Source: Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within

“A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.”

“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.”

Writing Kind Helping Young Teach Creativity Teaching Good Writers Young Writers

Author:Mario Vargas Llosa

“Nobody objects to a woman being a good writer or sculptor or geneticist if at the same time she manages to be a good wife, a good mother, good-looking, good-tempered, well-dressed, well-groomed, and unaggressive.”

Ifs Wells Mother Wife Feminism Objects Feminist Manage Feminine Womens Rights Looking Good Good Writers Sculptors Good Mother Good Wife Well Dressed I Am Woman Personal Grooming

Book:But Will it Sell?

Source: But Will it Sell?

“So many interviews, even ones that I consider really intelligent and good writers, will do the, like, 'Oh, you're not taking your clothes off like Miley Cyrus and all these girls' thing, which to me is just the weirdest thing to say to someone. ... Now when people are like, 'Tell me what you think of Miley!' I'll say, 'What do you think of Miley?' and they'll flounder and say, 'Well, I think she's really talented...' and I'm like, there you go.”

People Thinking Wells Girl Feminism Fashion Clothes Intelligent Interviews Good Writers Miley Girl Thing

Author:Lorde

“The test of any good fiction is that you should care something for the characters; the good to succeed, the bad to fail. The trouble with most fiction is that you want them all to land in hell, together, as quickly as possible.”

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Author:Mark Twain

“Good writers define reality; bad ones merely restate it.”

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Book:Stretching My Mind: The Collected Essays of Edward Albee

Source: Stretching My Mind: The Collected Essays of Edward Albee

“The good writing of any age has always been the product of someone's neurosis.”

Writing Age Products Neurotic Neurosis Good Writing Good Writers Young Writers

Book:Conversations with William Styron

Source: Conversations with William Styron

“You become a good writer just as you become a good joiner: by planing down your sentences.”

Writing Sentences Editing Good Writers

Author:Anatole France

“The good writer, the great writer, has what I have called the three S's: the power to see, to sense, and to say. That is, he is perceptive, he is feeling, and he has the power to express in language what he observes and reacts to.”

Writing Feelings Three Language Good Writers Great Writers

Book:Books are basic: the essential Lawrence Clark Powell

Source: Books are basic: the essential Lawrence Clark Powell

“Good writers are in the business of leaving signposts saying, Tour my world, see and feel it through my eyes; I am your guide.”

World Feels Writing Eye Leaving Guides Miscellaneous Good Writers Signposts Through My Eyes

Book:None but a blockhead: on being a writer

Source: None but a blockhead: on being a writer

“I have never thought of myself as a good writer. Anyone who wants reassurance of that should read one of my first drafts. But I'm one of the world's great rewriters.”

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Author:James A. Michener

“Tomorrow may be hell, but today was a good writing day, and on the good writing days nothing else matters.”

Writing May Matter Today Hell Tomorrow Writing Advice Good Writing Good Writers Short Writing

Author:Neil Gaiman

“Good writers are visible just behind their words.”

Writing Behinds Visible Good Writers

Book:On Writing Well, 30th Anniversary Edition: An Informal Guide to Writing Nonfiction

Source: On Writing Well, 30th Anniversary Edition: An Informal Guide to Writing Nonfiction

“The road to hell is paved with good intentions.”

“I've always thought that a lot of really good writers go wrong by getting so into the craft and the technique and perfection. Perfection can be the enemy sometimes. Some songs don't need to be told perfectly. Life is messy and has loose ends, and sometimes I think the songs should reflect that.”

Thinking Needs Should Writing Ends Sometimes Life Is Song Enemy Perfection Technique Crafts Songwriting Messy Good Writers Loose Ends

Author:Patterson Hood

“Stargate by far is the top of the pile when it comes to Sci-Fi. The quality is great. They have really good writers, production design, lighting, wardrobe.”

Quality Design Productions Sci Fi Lighting Wardrobe Good Writers Production Design

Author:Corin Nemec

“Most writers write to say something about other people - and it doesn't last. Good writers write to find out about themselves - and it lasts forever.”

People Writing Lasts Forever Good Writers

Book:Revolution from Within: A Book of Self-Esteem

Source: Revolution from Within: A Book of Self-Esteem

“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.”

Sea Critics Rail Good Writers Hacks

Book:A Voice Crying in the Wilderness

Source: A Voice Crying in the Wilderness

“A good writer must have more than vin rosé in his veins, use more than Chablis for ink.”

Use Rose Veins Ink Good Writers

Author:Edward Abbey

“Good writers are of necessity rare.”

Good Writers

Book:The Principles of Success in Literature

Source: The Principles of Success in Literature

“Writing is the flip side of sex - it's good only when it's over.”

Writing Sex Sides Flip Good Writers Writers And Writing Gonzo Journalism

Author:Hunter S. Thompson

“I once made the mistake of writing a story with David Corbett. The man smoked me. He can delineate the character and personality of an accordion in three strokes. I didn't even know accordions had character. This act of generosity and wisdom from a very good writer will help anyone who is staring at a blank page, any day, any time. Highly recommended.”

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Author:Luis Alberto Urrea

“Evan Handler is not only a fine actor, he’s a damn good writer. It’s Only Temporary is wise and funny and as righteously indignant as it is endearingly self-effacing. In what may be a literary first, the book actually left me wanting more.”

Firsts May Book Self Actors Left Wise Fine Damn Temporary Good Writers Indignant Damn Good Wanting More

Author:Meghan Daum

“I would like it to be said that I was a good writer of detective and thriller stories.”

Said Stories Detectives Thrillers Good Writers

Author:Agatha Christie

“Neil [Gaiman, creator of the comic Sandman, featuring the Amos-based character Delirium] believes that faeries have gone beyond cool. They've transcended cool. I just think alternate realities make you a good writer. If your work is any more than one dimension, you believe in faeries. I'm sure I'll start thinking now about all the people I know who don't believe, that I quite like. We can still go have a pint. Not the Chardonnay, though.”

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Author:Tori Amos

“On the other hand, at some level the mass of unresolved issues in Northern Ireland does influence the fact that there are so many good writers in the place.”

Doe Facts Hands Levels Issues Influence Mass Ireland Good Writers Northern Ireland Unresolved Issues

Author:Paul Muldoon

“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.”

Men Wells Ideas Draws Great Idea Good Writers Brilliant Ideas Animator

Book:Chuck Jones: Conversations

Source: Chuck Jones: Conversations

“Good writers are often excellent at a hundred other things, but writing promises a greater latitude for the ego.”

Writing Greater Promise Ego Hundred Excellent Good Writers Bedtime Latitude

Author:John Cheever

“The first is that good writing consists of mastering the fundamentals (vocabulary, grammar, the elements of style) and then filling the third level of your toolbox with the right instruments. The second is that while it is impossible to make a competent writer out of a bad writer, and while is equally impossible to make a great writer out of a good one, it is possible, with lots of hard work, dedication, and timely help, to make a good writer out of a merely competent one”

“Good writers are monotonous, like good composers. They keep trying to perfect the one problem they were born to understand.”

Trying Problem Born Perfect Composer Keep Trying Good Writers Monotonous

Author:Alberto Moravia

“I became a good writer when I saw the age of forty coming at me”

Age Saws Forty Good Writers

Author:Pat Mora

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