Good Writers Quotes (page 4)

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• good
• thinking
• management

I don't think that there are very many good writers who don't live without a sense of tension. If they haven't got one immediately available to them, then they usually manage to manufacture it in their private lives. John le Carre

• personality
• accounting
• evening

Nowadays I'm not even sure if newspapers take into account whether a person is a good writer. Bob Schieffer

• good
• directed
• goods

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

• good
• people
• goodly

A good writer is always a people watcher. Judy Blume

• good
• money
• writing

That has to remain the principal reason for doing it, doesn't it? I know it's possible to write for money, and many very good writers have done so. But for me, it has to remain the principal thing that I actually want to do the writing. Jonathan Kellerman

• friends
• good
• friend

A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends. Friedrich Nietzsche

• light
• good
• great

Stargate by far is the top of the pile when it comes to Sci-Fi. The quality is great. They have really good writers, production design, lighting, wardrobe. Corin Nemec

• good
• manly
• wants

I want to be an honest man and a good writer. James A. Baldwin

• thinking
• mindfulness
• feeling

I think my job is to try and be as honest as I can with what is in my mind and how I feel - I think that's what you're supposed to do, if you're a good writer. So I try to do that. I know I do that. I do do that. Paul Thomas Anderson

• good
• funny
• bad

Writers are funny about reviews: when they get a good one they ignore it-- but when they get a bad review they never forget it. Every writer I know is the same way: you get a hundred good reviews, and one bad, andyou remember only the bad. For years, you go on and fantasize about the reviewer who didn't like your book; you imagine him as a jerk, a wife-beater, a real ogre. And, in the meantime, the reviewer has forgotten all about the whole thing. But, twenty years later, the writer still... Art Buchwald

• images
• hand
• good

Good writing, and this is especially important in a subject such as economics, must also involve the reader in the matter at hand. It is not enough to explain. The images that are in the mind of the writer must be made to reappear in the mind of the reader, and it is the absence of this ability that causes much economic writing to be condemned, quite properly, as abstract. John Kenneth Galbraith

• watch
• good
• party

Writers - we're much more comfortable at parties standing in the corner watching everybody else having a good time than we are mingling. Neil Gaiman

• nature
• good
• liars

Writers, all the good ones, are Natural Born Liars. Daniel Keys Moran

• good
• good deal
• getting

Writers never get a very good deal in Hollywood. Richard O'Brien

• good
• writers
• pluck

Writers are good at plucking out what they need here and there. Beverly Cleary