Good Writers Quotes - Page 8

• No existe el buen escritor y el mal mentiroso.

  Amy Bloom

  Liars, Writing

  Amy Bloom (2013). “A Blind Man Can See How Much I Love You”, p.86, Pan Macmillan

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• The good writers touch life often. The mediocre ones run a quick hand over her. The bad ones rape her and leave her for the flies.

  Ray Bradbury

  Correr, escribir, manos

  Ray Bradbury (1951). "Fahrenheit 451: A Novel", Simon and Schuster

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

  E. B. White

  Friendship, True Friend, Charlotte's Web

  Charlotte'sWeb cap. 22 (1952)

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• My heroes were never scientists. They were Graham Greene and Christopher Isherwood, you know, good writers.

  James D. Watson

  Hero, Scientist, Knows

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• Las anécdotas no son buenas historias. Por lo general, escarbo tanto debajo de ellas que la historia que finalmente sale a la luz no es de lo que la gente pensaba que trataban sus anécdotas.

  Alice Munro

  Escritura, Personas, Anécdotas

  Publicación en FaceBook de Alice Munro del 17-sep-2011

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• Writing is physical work. It's sweaty work. You just can't will yourself to become a good writer. You really have to work at it.

  Wil Haygood

  Writing, Working It

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• I once made the mistake of writing a story with David Corbett. The man smoked me. He can delineate the character and personality of an accordion in three strokes. I didn't even know accordions had character. This act of generosity and wisdom from a very good writer will help anyone who is staring at a blank page, any day, any time. Highly recommended.

  Luis Alberto Urrea

  Mistake, Writing, Character

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• Good writers are of necessity rare.

  George Henry Lewes

  George Henry Lewes (1891). "Los principios del éxito en la literatura"

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• A good writer must have more than vin rosé in his veins, use more than Chablis for ink.

  Edward Abbey

  Rose, Ink, Use

  "Una voz clama en el desierto".

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• Any hack can safely rail away at foreign powers beyond the sea; but a good writer is a critic of the society he lives in.

  Edward Abbey

  Sea, Critics, Rail

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.30, RosettaBooks

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• Most writers write to say something about other people - and it doesn't last. Good writers write to find out about themselves - and it lasts forever.

  Gloria Steinem

  Writing, People, Forever

  Gloria Steinem (2012). “Revolution from Within: A Book of Self-Esteem”, p.10, Open Road Media

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• I've always thought that a lot of really good writers go wrong by getting so into the craft and the technique and perfection. Perfection can be the enemy sometimes. Some songs don't need to be told perfectly. Life is messy and has loose ends, and sometimes I think the songs should reflect that.

  Patterson Hood

  Canción, Escritura, Pensamiento

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• En muchas entrevistas, incluso en las que considero muy inteligentes y buenas escritoras, se dice algo así como 'Oh, no te quitas la ropa como Miley Cyrus y todas esas chicas', lo que para mí es lo más raro que se le puede decir a alguien. ... Ahora, cuando la gente me dice: '¡Dime lo que piensas de Miley! Yo les digo: '¿Qué opinas de Miley?', y ellos se quedan dudando y dicen: 'Bueno, creo que tiene mucho talento...', y yo les digo: 'Ya está'.

  Lorde

  Girl, Fashion, Intelligent

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• Nobody objects to a woman being a good writer or sculptor or geneticist if at the same time she manages to be a good wife, a good mother, good-looking, good-tempered, well-dressed, well-groomed, and unaggressive.

  Marya Mannes

  Mother, Wife, Feminist

  Marya Mannes (1964). "Pero, ¿se venderá?"

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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

  Teaching, Writing, Creativity

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• Los buenos escritores toman prestado de otros escritores. Los grandes escritores los roban directamente.

  Aaron Sorkin

  Stealing, Great Writers

  Aaron Sorkin (2003). "El ala oeste: Seasons 3 & 4 : the Shooting Scripts", Newmarket Shooting Scripts

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• A good writer is always a people watcher.

  Judy Blume

  People, Watchers

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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

  Nice, Writing, Feelings

  "George Saunders and Andy Ward". Interview with Andy Ward, www.slate.com. January 07, 2013.

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• I thought I was a pretty good writer, but I didn't have anything to write about. I wanted to go out in the world, have some adventures and then write about them.

  Shane Smith

  Adventure, Writing, World

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• Any good writer is going to be well-received and is going to not be well-received; that's how you know you're a great writer.

  Karrine Steffans

  Wells, Great Writers, Knows

  "REPORTAJE: Karrine Steffans, jefa de la clase". Entrevista XXL, www.xxlmag.com. 13 th Of July de 2009.

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• I believe writers need to be chameleons, or like Meryl Streep, who can play all sorts of characters. A good writer should be able to cross gender lines and people of all social classes. So for me, writing from a male point of view would be a great challenge, that I would look forward to taking on.

  Marisha Pessl

  Creer, Carácter, Escribir

  "Off the Page: Marisha Pessl". Live chat, www.washingtonpost.com. October 26, 2006.

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• A good journalist, as you know, is a great listener. And so's a good writer. And I got to listen to people for almost 20 years. That serves me well, I hope, when I try to understand how a character might be feeling, or how they might react.

  Louise Penny

  Carácter, Años, Gente

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• I was able to work out all sorts of attitudes to style and event and character, all of which affected the way I came to think about my own writing. I believe that all good writers are original.

  Margaret Mahy

  Attitude, Believe, Writing

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• Mis padres son muy, muy divertidos, y mi hermana pequeña es muy buena pintora, y mi otra hermana es muy buena escritora.

  Michael Cera

  Padres, Hermana pequeña, Pequeños

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• Five common traits of good writers: (1) They have something to say. (2) They read widely and have done so since childhood. (3) They possess what Isaac Asimov calls a "capacity for clear thought," able to go from point to point in an orderly sequence, an A to Z approach. (4) They're geniuses at putting their emotions into words. (5) They possess an insatiable curiosity, constantly asking Why and How.

  James J. Kilpatrick

  Writing, Asking Why, Childhood

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