Quotes of: Good-writer Keyword

great writers are indecent people they live unfairly saving the best part for paper. good human beings save the world so that bastards like me can keep creating art, become immortal. if you read this after I am dead it means I made it.

The People Look Like Flowers at Last

Criticism can never instruct or benefit you. Its chief effect is that of a telegram with dubious news. Praise leaves no glow behind, for it is a writer's habit to remember nothing good of himself. I have usually forgotten those who have admired my wo...

Ben Hecht

In keeping with my family's affection for doomed product lines and hexed formats, we purchased a Betamax. The year before, we'd bought a TRS-80 instead of an Apple II, and in due course we'd unbox Mattel's Intellivision, instead of Atari's legendary ...

Colson Whitehead

I directed the next-to-last episode of 'Parenthood.' I wrote three of the four last episodes. I had the cast to my house. Had a champagne toast with the writers. Had a huge cast and crew party. Drank eggnog in the camera truck after we wrapped the fi...

Jason Katims

Here's what I mean by the miracle of language. When you're falling into a good book, exactly as you might fall into a dream, a little conduit opens, a passageway between a reader's heart and a writer's, a connection that transcends the barriers of co...

Anthony Doerr

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,...

Love

Good writers don’t moralize, nor do they preach, but they do create longing for the true and the beautiful, and that is why you must write with Christ at the center of your reason for writing. That does not mean that every book must be a retelling ...

Life

a good woman's friends talk a good woman out of being with a good man, and a good man's heart talked that good man out of trying to be with that good woman.. because that good woman was talked out of being with that good man and so that good man stop...

David J. Martinez

a good woman was talked out of being with a good man and a good man talked himself out of being with that good woman because that good woman was talked out of being with that good man and so that good man stopped trying to be that good man and that g...

David J. Martinez

Whenever people ask me, "How are your books doing?" or, "How is your book doing?" I just say, "It's okay." I mean, what am I supposed to say? I'm a writer; that means I write because I need to write, because that's how I breathe and that's how I blee...

C. JoyBell C.

How can you go wrong with two people in love? If a good boy loves a good girl, good. If a good boy loves another good boy, good. And if a good girl loves the goodness in good boys and good girls, then all you have is more goodness, and goodness has n...

Fiona Apple

A career in the arts can make anyone crazy.

Eminent Outlaws: The Gay Writers Who Changed America

Death is almost never timely, even for the old.

Eminent Outlaws: The Gay Writers Who Changed America

God pity the poor novelist.

Edwin Mullhouse: The Life and Death of an American Writer 1943-1954 by Jeffrey Cartwright

You don't need to wait for inspiration to write. It's easier to be inspired while writing that while not writing...

Fiction Writer's Workshop

The prejudice is still there, but it's breaking down. You have writers like Michael Chabon and The Yiddish Policemen's Union. He's a writer who's determined to break down genre barriers. He's done amazing things.

George R. R. Martin

Repeat the mantra: Writing is when I make the words. Editing is when I make them not shitty.

500 Ways to Be a Better Writer

I sometimes think my head is so large because it is so full of dreams.

How To Write Mysteries: A Writer's Notebook

My cat is an ungrateful brat. -Nellie McKay

It All Changed in an Instant: More Six-Word Memoirs by Writers Famous & Obscure

Exercise the muscles that compassionately open the heart. In your writing and your life.

The Mindful Writer: Noble Truths of the Writing Life

She read Dickens in the same spirit she would have eloped with him.

One Writer's Beginnings