#good writer

I'm not a very good writer, but I'm an excellent rewriter. ↗

— James A. Michener

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

— Matthew Vaughn

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A good writer cannot avoid having social consciousness. I don't mean this about small pieces of writing, but about a big book. If it's a big book, there has to be more than one undertow. ↗

— Marguerite Young

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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There's a really nice moment in the life of a piece of writing where the writer starts to get a feeling of it outgrowing him - or he starts to see it having a life of its own that doesn't have anything to do with his ego or his desire to 'be a good writer.' ↗

— George Saunders

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

— Bob Schieffer

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

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

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Every good writer or filmmaker has something eating at them, right? That they can't quite get off their back . And so your job is to make your audience care about your obsessions. ↗

— Bruce Springsteen

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

— Theodore Sturgeon

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It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer. ↗

— E. B. White

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