Good Writers Quotes - Page 9

• A bench in the street can be a good writer because all kind of material comes onto it like a heavy rain!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Rain, Benches, Kind

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

  Alexander Pope

  Believe, Qualifications, Rejecting

  Alexander Pope (1873). “The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope Edited with Notes and Introductory Memoir by Adolphus William Ward”, p.4

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• Good writers will, indeed, do well to imitate the ingenious traveller. . .who always proportions his stay in any place.

  Henry Fielding

  Proportion, Wells, Traveller

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

  Robert Newton Peck

  Writing, Cameras, Pens

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

  Walker Percy

  Beats, South

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• Good writers show rather than tell. Stories are told in action. Life stories are no different.

  Donald Miller

  Different, Stories, Action

  Twitter post from Jun 19, 2015

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• ...when you collaborate with someone else on something creative, you get to places that you would never get to on your own. The way an idea builds as it careens back and forth between good writers is so unpredictable. Sometimes it depends on people misunderstanding each other, and that's why I don't think there's any such thing as a mistake in the creative process. You never know where it might lead.

  John Cleese

  Mistake, Thinking, Ideas

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• Get up from your desk and wander outside occasionally. To be a good writer one needs to be a good observer, and there isn't a lot to be observed at desk level.

  Jane Yolen

  Needs, Levels, Get Up

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• If you're really a good writer and deserve that honored position, then by God, you'll write, and you'll be read, and you'll be produced somehow. It just works that way. If you're just a simple ordinary day-to-day craftsman, no different than most, then the likelihood is that you probably won't make it in writing.

  Rod Serling

  Writing, Simple, Ordinary Days

  Source: www.rodserling.com

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• A good writer is basically a story teller, not a scholar or a redeemer of mankind.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Writing, Stories, Literature

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• Admiration from my readers inspire me, and the only 'formula' I believe in towards making a good writer is: 'to thine own self be true!'

  Ashwin Sanghi

  Believe, Self, Inspire

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• 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.

  Chuck Jones

  Men, Ideas, Wells

  Chuck Jones, Maureen Furniss (2005). “Chuck Jones: Conversations”, p.161, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• 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

  Stephen King

  Hard Work, Writing, Dedication

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

  Alberto Moravia

  Perfect, Trying, Problem

  "The New Yorker" Interview, May 7, 1955.

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

  Andy Rooney

  Writing, Thinker

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• 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.

  Janet Fitch

  Writing, Light, Media

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• 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.

  Sara Sheridan

  Writing, Thinking, Novelists

  "Opinion: literary and commercial writers should lay down their arms" by Sara Sheridan, www.theguardian.com. April 21, 2011.

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• 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.

  ZZ Packer

  Writing, Ethnicity, Feelings

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• 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.

  Jackie DeShannon

  Song, Writing, Doe

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• I believe a good writer can write a good book with any sort of character, in any sort of setting, but I prefer to write about the outsider. It might just be because I've been one (or perceived myself to be one) for so much of my life. But the simple fact of being marginalized immediately brings conflict to a story before the narrative even begins, and that's gold for a writer because it means that your character already has depth before events begin to unfold.

  Charles de Lint

  Believe, Book, Writing

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• The good writer and the good actor are always searching for what is essential. It is a never-ending task because what is essential is always elusive and, therefore, fascinating.

  Glenda Jackson

  Essentials, Tasks, Actors

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

  Ben Yagoda

  Sensitive, Endeavor

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• 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

  Growing Up, Thinking, Mortality

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• Anyone who can only write about themselves or their life experiences, in my mind, isn't a very good writer.

  Robert Rodriguez

  Writing, Mind, Life Experience

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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

  Jim Bishop

  History, Guy, Suspicious

  Talk With Jim Bishop" by Lewis Nichols, www.nytimes.com. February 6, 1955.

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