#good writer

What I always wanted to get seen as was as a good actor, when it was the acting I was doing. When I'm writing, I want to try to be seen as a good writer. ↗

— Alan Alda

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I want to be an honest man and a good writer. ↗

— James A. Baldwin

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Although I write screenplays, I don't think I'm a very good writer. ↗

— George Lucas

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

— Bob Schieffer

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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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You cannot teach creativity - how to become a good writer. But you can help a young writer discover within himself what kind of writer he would like to be. ↗

— Mario Vargas Llosa

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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

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A good writer is not, per se, a good book critic. No more so than a good drunk is automatically a good bartender. ↗

— Jim Bishop

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