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“Absolutely breathtaking, nail-biting, and edge-of-your-seat. Michael Koryta is a master at maintaining suspense and a hell of a good writer. THOSE WHO WISH ME DEAD is one of the best chase-and-escape novels you’ll read this year-or any other year. The pace never lets up.”

Years Wish Novel Hell Masters Edges Suspense Seats Pace Nails Maintaining Good Writers Biting Breathtaking

Author:Nelson DeMille

“A good writer wants from us — or has no right to ask more than — intelligence, good faith and time.”

Want Asks Good Writers Good Faith

Author:John Jeremiah Sullivan

“Everything I have written up to now is trifling compared to that which I would like to write and would write with great pleasureEither I am a fool and a self-conceited person, or I am a being capable of becoming a good writer; I am displeased and bored with everything now being written, while everything in my head interests, moves, and excites me-whence I draw the conclusion that no one is doing what is needed, and I alone know the secret of how it should be done. In all likelihood everyone who writes thinks that. In fact, the devil himself will be brought to his knees by these questions.”

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Author:Anton Chekhov

“A great writer has all 4 - but you can still be a good writer with only 1 and 2.”

Writing Stills Good Writers Great Writers

Book:Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963

Source: Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963

“The good stories, of course, write themselves. And somebody wants to know who are the really good writers, and how many of them there are. There aren't any. Most of the writers are likeable frauds. Some are unlikable frauds.”

Knows Want Writing Stories Courses Fraud Good Story Good Writers Likeable

Author:R. A. Lafferty

“Bad writers have influences. Good writers steal.”

Influence Stealing Good Writers

Author:S.M. Stirling

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

Writing Thinker Good Writers

Author:Andy Rooney

“Usually people who do bad things make good writers.I did a lot of bad things, which is why my novels are interesting.”

People Interesting Novel Bad Things Good Writers

Author:Jakucho Setouchi

“I cannot stand Tolstoy, and reading him was the most boring literary duty I ever had to perform, his philosophy and his sense of life are not merely mistaken, but evil, and yet, from a purely literary viewpoint, on his own terms, I have to evaluate him as a good writer.”

Philosophy Evil Reading Term Duty Boring Mistaken Evaluate Viewpoints Good Writers

Book:The Objectivist

Source: The Objectivist

“Good writing is supposed to evoke sensation in the reader - not the fact that it is raining, but the feeling of being rained upon.”

“I regard posterity as vulgar as success. I don't trust posterity. I don't think what's good is necessarily recognized in the long run. Too many good writers have disappeared.”

Thinking Long Running Regard Long Runs Vulgar Posterity Don't Trust Good Writers

Book:My Lunches with Orson: Conversations between Henry Jaglom and Orson Welles

Source: My Lunches with Orson: Conversations between Henry Jaglom and Orson Welles

“Nothing can destroy the good writer. The only thing that can alter the good writer is death. Good ones don't have time to bother with success or getting rich.”

Rich Bother Get Rich Good Writers

Author:William Faulkner

“There are three things you need to be a good writer: you need to read a lot, you need to write a lot, and you need a lot of feedback.”

Needs Writing Three Feedback Three Things Good Writers

Author:Clay Shirky

“I think that people who can't believe in faeries aren't worth knowing. I just think that alternate realities make you a good writer. If your work is any more than one dimension, you believe in faeries.”

People Ifs Thinking Believe Reality Knowing Fairy Dimensions Faerie Good Writers Alternate Realities

Author:Tori Amos

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

Skills Comeback Good Writers

Author:Theodore Sturgeon

“You do an awful lot of bad writing in order to do any good writing. Incredibly bad. I think it would be very interesting to make a collection of some of the worst writing by good writers.”

Thinking Writing Would Be Order Interesting Worst Awful Collections Very Interesting Good Writing Good Writers Bad Writing

Author:William S. Burroughs

“Somehow, some way, incredibly enough, good writing ultimately gets recognized. If you're a really good writer and deserve that honored position, then by God, you'll write, and you'll be read.”

Ifs Way Writing Enough Position Deserve Honored Good Writing Good Writers

Author:Rod Serling

“A good writer always works at the impossible.There is another kind who pulls in his horizons, drops his mind as one lowers rifle sights.”

Writing Mind Kind Impossible Sight Horizon Rifles Good Writers

Book:Journal of a Novel: The East of Eden Letters

Source: Journal of a Novel: The East of Eden Letters

“A good writer is an expert on nothing except himself. And on that subject, if he is wise, he holds his tongue.”

Ifs Wise Subjects Tongue Experts Good Writers

Author:John le Carre

“A good writer is always a people watcher.”

People Good Writers Watchers

Author:Judy Blume

“Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.”

“A good writer always works at the impossible.”

Impossible Good Writers

Book:Journal of a Novel: The East of Eden Letters

Source: Journal of a Novel: The East of Eden Letters

“All good writers express the state of their souls, even (as occurs in some cases of very good writers) if it is a state of damnation.”

Ifs Soul States Cases Very Good Good Writers Damnation

Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“My freshman English professor at Kent State University in 1984 told me I was a good writer, and she loved all the silly pictures I drew in my notebook. She said I should try writing children's books, and so I did.”

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Author:Dav Pilkey

“Learning to write is not a linear process. There is no logical A-to-B-to-C way to become a good writer. One neat truth about writing cannot answer it all. There are many truths. To do writing practice means to deal ultimately with your whole life.”

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Book:Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within

Source: Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within

“When a good writer is having fun, the audience is almost always having fun too.”

Fun Audience Having Fun Good Writers

Author:Stephen King

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

Sweat Good Writers

Author:Patricia T. O'Conner

“Your job description as a journalist is to question and scrutinize critically-neve r to repeat claims uncritically, no matter how highly placed the sources in the bureaucracy. Don't ever forget that. You're a damn good writer, but that talent is completely worthless if you forget your job description.”

Ifs Matter Jobs Forget Talent Source Claims Journalist Damn Repeats Description Bureaucracy Worthless Forget You Good Writers Damn Good Scrutinize

Author:Steig Larsson

“If you are a good writer - and I think I am - you are able to handle any kind of group and imagine their lives.”

Ifs Thinking Kind Able Imagine Groups Handle Good Writers

Author:Earl Hamner, Jr.

“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.”

Men Want Writing Real Stories Guy Differences Honest He Man Mark Suspicion Suspicious Good Story Good Writers

Author:Jim Bishop

“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.”

People Giving Writing Literature Sound Emotion Serious Release Formulas Conventions Mediocre Exploits Good Writers

Book:Educated Imagination and Other Writings on Critical Theory, 1933-1962

Source: Educated Imagination and Other Writings on Critical Theory, 1933-1962

“My grandfather had been a newspaper reporter, as was my uncle. They were pretty good writers and so I thought maybe somewhere down the line I would do some writing.”

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Author:Gene Hackman

“Appealing to the five senses is the feature that will always set writing apart from the visual media. A good writer will tell us what the world smells like, what the textures are, what the sounds are, what the light looks like, what the weather is.”

World Writing Looks Light Sound Five Media Smell Senses Weather Features Visuals Texture Good Writers Five Senses

Author:Janet Fitch

“Copywriters, journalists, mainstream authors, ghostwriters, bloggers and advertising creatives have as much right to think of themselves as good writers as academics, poets, or literary novelists.”

Thinking Writing Poet Advertising Journalist Novelists Mainstream Good Writers Bloggers

Author:Sara Sheridan

“Be wary of feeling as through there is not enough room at the table. Oftentimes a female Chinese-American might feel as through she is in competition with another Chinese-American woman writer of the same generation. A writer friend of mine calls it the "There Can Only Be One ..." syndrome. This isn't "Survivor." The more good writers, of all walks of life and all ethnicities and persuasions, the better.”

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Author:ZZ Packer

“All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.”

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Author:F. Scott Fitzgerald

“There are some good songs, but not the kind of song-writing that I remember, that I like. Springsteen still does it. Paul Simon, and there are also good writers, but that doesn't dominate the charts.”

Writing Kind Doe Stills Remember Song Good Writers Springsteen

Author:Jackie DeShannon

“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.”

People Thinking Want Writing Ends Loneliness Smart Good Writers

Author:Jonathan Safran Foer

“Five common traits of good writers: (1) They have something to say. (2) They read widely and have done so since childhood. (3) They possess what Isaac Asimov calls a "capacity for clear thought," able to go from point to point in an orderly sequence, an A to Z approach. (4) They're geniuses at putting their emotions into words. (5) They possess an insatiable curiosity, constantly asking Why and How.”

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Author:James J. Kilpatrick

“My parents are both really, really funny, and my little sister is a really good painter, and my other sister is a really good writer.”

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Author:Michael Cera

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