Quotes of: Good-writer Keyword

My publisher, who was so good as a taster and editor, when she became a writer, lo and behold, it was all this feminine tosh.

V. S. Naipaul

There are plenty of good Indian writers in English, and none of us feel we are carrying the burden of being a poster boy.

Vikram Seth

Any writer will be happy and good only if they know what they're doing and why they're doing it.

Yann Martel

In real life people do occasionally act out of character or do things we wouldn’t normally expect them to do. In fiction, there should be a good reason for a character to do something outside of the ordinary.

The Writer's Tune-up Manual: 35 Exercises That Will Scrape the Rust Off Your Writing

The way to rock oneself back into writing is this. First gentle exercise in the air. Second the reading of good literature. It is a mistake to think that literature can be produced from the raw. One must get out of life...one must become externalised...

A Writer's Diary

Real writers write. Period. No, the muse does not come to visit everyday. She’s a lazy, precocious flirt. You cannot get into the habit of being “in the mood” to write. No writer on Earth is in the mood to write everyday, but the good ones do i...

Darynda Jones

I'm not good at narrative; I'm really a gag writer, and that comes from being in the newspaper comic strip world for a while in college. What I do is I just write tons of jokes, then I sort them out in terms of quality and then pick the best of the j...

Jeff Kinney

You can't be a good writer in the States anymore because to be a good one you have to have a country where you can be poor and still eat, and still make your living standard secondary to your writing. Thoreau himself couldn't do that in the States to...

Nelson Algren

There is a problem with writers. If what a writer wrote was published and sold many, many copies, the writer thought he was great. If what a writer wrote was published and sold a medium number of copies, the writer thought he was great. If what a wri...

Women

I always think that good writers should be growing up on the brink of death - it really lets them see mortality very clearly.

Gary Shteyngart

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

Some of the most untidy writers have also been the most productive. Iris Murdoch, for instance, wrote a good 30 books in a house strewn with rubbish.

Craig Brown

Letters have to pass two tests before they can be classed as good: they must express the personality both of the writer and of the recipient.

E. M. Forster

A good writer can set a thriller anywhere and make it convincing: the trick is to evoke the setting in such a way that it highlights the crime or unsettles the reader.

Garry Disher

There aren't enough good roles for strong women. I wish we had more female writers. Most of the female characters you see in films today are the 'poor heartbroken girl.'

Gal Gadot

I always think the insecurity is going to go away, but it's always there. Only bad writers think they're good.

Harlan Coben

A creative writing program is only as good as its teachers, and I was fortunate in having two great writers as mentors.

Jay McInerney

Well see, I'm a good enough writer that not everybody in my books talks exactly like I do.

Robert Kirkman

The writer has no responsibility other than to jack off in bed alone and write a good page.

Charles Bukowski

If a writer of prose knows enough about what he is writing about he may omit things that he knows and the reader, if the writer is writing truly enough, will have a feeling of those things as strongly as though the writer had stated them. The dignity...

Ernest Hemingway

...it's good to know wave and particle alpha code, but more than that, the writer must go to the heart of life ...

A Familiar Rain