A great writer has all 4 - but you can still be a good writer with only 1 and 2. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Every great writer is a writer of history, let him treat on almost what subject he may. — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
Truthfully, I guess I would like to be remembered as a great writer and a kind person. I wouldn't mind if an… — Mindy Kaling Copy Share Image
“A great writer is, so to speak, a second government in his country. And for that reason no regime has ever loved… — Alexander Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
As for Tenacious D, of course it could work as a full length movie; all it requires is a great writer and… — David Cross Copy Share Image
A great writer picks up on those things that matter. It’s almost like their radar is attuned to the most significant moments. — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
If I'd learned nothing else, it was this: If you want to be a great writer, be a man. If you can't… — Julianna Baggott Copy Share Image
“The truly great writer does not want to write. He wants the world to be a place in which he can live… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
I know I'm not a great writer. I'm an extremely gifted oral communicator, but when it comes to writing, I'm just a… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
It is splendid to be a great writer, to put men into the frying pan of your words and make them pop… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
I am going to lose my fanbase and say that Jonathan Franzen's 'Crossroads' is very good. One of my favourite writers is… — Torrey Peters Copy Share Image
My guiltiest pleasure is Harry Stephen Keeler. He may have been the greatest bad writer America has ever produced. Or perhaps the… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I am convinced that anyone can be a great writer . . . if he can only . . . tell the… — Clive Barnes Copy Share Image
That's why Tennessee Williams was a great writer. Poetically, dramatically, it was fantastic stuff. And with the landscape, the losers in life… — Ciaran Hinds Copy Share Image
I'd go for "really great writer." Although I don't think I am. I know I have a style which is recognizable. I… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I believe we all have the capacity to be masters of many things, and there's nothing that we can't do. You can… — Hill Harper Copy Share Image
A man can write one book that can be great, but this doesn't make him a great writer-just the writer of a… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
“Louis-Ferdinand Céline, a great writer and son of a bitch. Just an abject human being. It’s incredible that the coldest moments of… — Roberto Bolaño Copy Share Image
For a country to have a great writer is like having a second government. That is why no regime has ever loved… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
It is the little writer rather than the great writer who seems never to quote, and the reason is that he is… — Havelock Ellis Copy Share Image
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… — Karrine Steffans Copy Share Image
He [Samuel Beckett] is great, a very great writer. Any modern writer is bound to be influenced by [James] Joyce. Of course,… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
My dad is a great writer. Naturally talented, naturally charming. He embodies that back-in-the-day cool. — Drake Copy Share Image
That's what ever great writer, I believe, has done over the course of time - is they've figured out new ways of… — James Frey Copy Share Image
A great writer created a world of his own and his readers are proud to live in it. A lesser writer may… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
The creations of a great writer are little more than the moods and passions of his own heart, given surnames and Christian… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
I've known Shawn for several years. And he's just an amazing talent. He's a great writer, a marvelous, marvelous guitar player, and… — Guy Clark Copy Share Image
My family is involved and my wife Brenda is a great, great writer. She helps me with the writing of everything and… — Rick Derringer Copy Share Image
It is my desire to be a great writer. I know that I still have a mountain to climb to achieve that. — Guy Johnson Copy Share Image
“The truly great writer does not want to write: he wants the world to be a place in which he can life… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
Intellectuals of [Albert] Camus' age who had previously disliked him now appreciate him. And at that point we come back to literature,… — Catherine Camus Copy Share Image
He's a great writer. If I didn't think so I wouldn't have tried to kill him... I was the champ and when… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“It's great to be anywhere as a writer. It saves you from implication in the ugliness of the place and justifies your… — Richard Hell Copy Share Image
The writer who cannot sometimes throw away a thought about which another man would have written dissertations, without worry whether or not… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
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