I want to become a very good writer.

A good writer is always a people watcher.

A good writer always works at the impossible.

A good writer writes with a camera, not a pen.

I'm not a very good writer. I'm working at it.

Churchill was a good writer but a bad historian.

Bad writers have influences. Good writers steal.

You can't be a jerk in order to be a good writer.

A good writer of history is a guy who is suspicious.

To be a good writer... read a lot and write every day.

There is no such thing as a good writer and a bad liar.

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

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

Anybody can direct, but there are only eleven good writers.

A good writer sells out everybody he knows, sooner or later.

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

Bucky Katt: A bad writer is just a good writer with writer's block.

All good writers are sensitive to clichés and endeavor to avoid them

Why has the South produced so many good writers? Because we got beat.

Being a good writer doesn’t make you a good reporter, it takes hustle.

A good writer is not someone who knows how to write- but how to rewrite

I wouldn't be a very good writer if someone hadn't taught me how to read.

He who is afraid to use an "I" in his writing will never make a good writer.

I don't think I'm a particularly good writer, and I'm not terribly insightful.

Good writers borrow from other writers. Great writers steal from them outright.

I really dislike it when people talk about "experimental," because any good writer is experimental.

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

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

Since Caesar, we know his historians are liars. The good writers get read. Bad history doesn't get read.

My heroes were never scientists. They were Graham Greene and Christopher Isherwood, you know, good writers.

I believe no one qualification is so likely to make a good writer, as the power of rejecting his own thoughts.

Any good writer is going to be well-received and is going to not be well-received; that's how you know you're a great writer.

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.

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