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Good Writers Quotes

Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear. It doesn't matter whether the good writer wants to be useful, or whether the good writer wants to be harm. Ezra Pound
Good writers define reality; bad ones merely restate it. A good writer turns fact into truth; a bad writer will, more often than not, accomplish the opposite. Edward Albee
Aaron Sorkin quote: "Good writers borrow from other writers. Great writers steal..."
Good writers borrow from other writers. Great writers steal from them outright. Aaron Sorkin
Aaron Sorkin quote: "Good writers borrow. The best writers steal."
Good writers borrow. The best writers steal. Aaron Sorkin
Alberto Moravia quote: "Good writers are monotonous, like good composers. They keep..."
Good writers are monotonous, like good composers. They keep trying to perfect the one problem they were born to understand. Alberto Moravia
Ray Bradbury quote: "Good writers touch life often."
Good writers touch life often. Ray Bradbury
Good writers have two things in common: they prefer to be understood rather than admired; and they do not write for knowing and over-acute readers. Friedrich Nietzsche
Ezra Pound quote: "Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That..."
Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear. Ezra Pound
George Henry Lewes quote: "Good writers are of necessity rare."
Good writers are of necessity rare. George Henry Lewes
John Cheever quote: "Good writers are often excellent at a hundred other things,..."
Good writers are often excellent at a hundred other things, but writing promises a greater latitude for the ego. John Cheever
Good writers are in the business of leaving signposts saying, Tour my world, see and feel it through my eyes; I am your guide. Larry King
Thackeray's a good writer and Flaubert is a great artist. Trollope is a good writer and Dickens is a great artist. Colette is a very good writer and Proust is a great artist. Katherine Anne Porter was an extremely good writer and Willa Cather was a great artist. Truman Capote
There is this thing called the university, and everybody goes there now. And there are these things called teachers who make students read this book with good ideas or that book with good ideas until that's where we get our ideas. We don't think them; we read them in books. I like Utopian talk, speculation about what our planet should be, anger about what our planet is. I think writers are the most important members of society, not just potentially but actually. Good writers must have and... Kurt Vonnegut
Entertain, yes. That goes without saying. But a good writer does that automatically, it's built into the machine. Telling a thumpingly good, mesmerizing story is what one does without question. But beyond that, any writer worth his/her hire knows that all writing, one way or another, is subversive. It is guerrilla warfare against the status quo. Harlan Ellison
None of this excuses anyone from mastering the basic ideas and terminology of economics. The intelligent layman must expect also to encounter good economists who are difficult writers even though some of the best have been very good writers. He should know, moreover, that at least for a few great men ambiguity of expression has been a positive asset. But with these exceptions he may safely conclude that what is wholly mysterious in economics is not likely to be important. John Kenneth Galbraith

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