Anybody can direct, but there are only eleven good writers.
I'm not a very good writer. I'm working at it.
You can't be a jerk in order to be a good writer.
All good writers are sensitive to clichés and endeavor to avoid them
Since Caesar, we know his historians are liars. The good writers get read. Bad history doesn't get read.
Good writers borrow from other writers. Great writers steal from them outright.
You can't be a good writer without being a good thinker.
A good writer always works at the impossible.
A good writer sells out everybody he knows, sooner or later.
My heroes were never scientists. They were Graham Greene and Christopher Isherwood, you know, good writers.
Do we have good writers, producers and actors in the U. K. ? Yes we do.
If you read good books, when you write, good books will come out of you.
I'll never be a good writer, and no chance of being a good actor.
A good writer is always a people watcher.
Bad writers have influences. Good writers steal.
Churchill was a good writer but a bad historian.
Why has the South produced so many good writers? Because we got beat.
A good writer writes with a camera, not a pen.
There is no such thing as a good writer and a bad liar.
When you combine something to say with the skill to say it properly, then you've got a good writer.