Great writers Quotes · Page 2

Great writers probably shouldn't be ranked, at least not by me.

— Anthony Doerr

“Good writers look it up. Great writers experience it.”

— Ebony Easter

For a country to have a great writer is to have another government.

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Every great writer is a writer of history, let him treat on almost any subject he may.

— Walter Savage Landor

A great writer reveals the truth even when he or she does not wish to.

— Tom Bissell

Listen to the Bee Gees and you can learn to be a great writer.

— Kara DioGuardi

Great writers create; writers of smaller gifts copy

— Anonymous

There're so many great writers out there who aren't getting the exposure they deserve.

— Jonathan Evison

I think it's probably better to make a region your own, and then maybe you can go somewhere else, but a lot…

— Tom Barbash

Purely the idea of writing a lot of books doesn't make you a great writer, but it might be that the process…

— Walter Mosley

I'm pleased to have outsold great writers. But I'm not insane - I realize I am a writer people buy to take…

— Maeve Binchy

The great writers just kept bringing them out. They didn't care if they repeated themselves.

— Irwin Shaw

I have never thought of myself as a good writer. Anyone who wants reassurance of that should read one of my first…

— James A. Michener

Great writers are not those who tell us we shouldn’t play with fire, but those who make our fingers burn.

— Stephen Vizinczey

Edgar Allan Poe is considered the great writer of horror stories, perhaps the greatest - I will say the greatest

— William Friedkin

There are writers who are great visionaries, who can depict huge movements - things like that. They're the great writers. I'm just…

— Leonard Cohen

Most great writers suffer and have no idea how good they are. Most bad writers are very confident. Be willing to be…

— Mary Karr

I guess I'm not jaded because I still believe that there are good films out there, and there are great directors, and…

— Elijah Wood

There are many great writers out there and, actually, great scripts. The problem is - and this is what I've always felt,…

— Paul Rudd

it is not unusual to hate great writers before we learn to love them. Because they have created something that did not…

— Erica Jong

When you got source material, whether it's a play or a book - a great writer often appreciates being adapted and developed.…

— Jude Law

My dad would go to work every day and write in a room full of funny people. He enjoyed it. I know…

— Joss Whedon

Mark Twain was so good with crowds that he became, in competition with singers and dancers and actors and acrobats, one of…

— Kurt Vonnegut

I really enjoy English and poetry and writing classes. You do get writer's block when you're writing music, and having inspiration from…

— Taylor Momsen

If you really think back to the great writers, there's a lot of happiness in Tolstoy; there's a lot of love, there's…

— George Saunders

An understandable hunger for potential clients tempts many [career counseling therapists] to overpromise, like creative writing teachers who, out of greed or…

— Alain de Botton

I'm a strong believer that you have to have an equal opportunity to fail and to try things that are hard. I…

— Condoleezza Rice

I wrote Baghdad Central right after translating a great work by Ibrahim al-Koni, who is sort of a master of Arab fiction.…

— Elliott Colla

I could never write about the sort of people John Cheever or John Updike or even Margaret Atwood write about. I don't…

— Jim Woodring

One thing I'd do was put a great writer's book beside the typewriter and... type out a beautiful and moving paragraph... and…

— Gina Berriault

Here's what I love: when a great writer turns me into a Jew from Chicago, a lesbian out of South Carolina, or…

— Pat Conroy

One of the most insidious myths in American wine culture is that a wine is good if you like it. Liking a…

— Karen MacNeil

A great writer is, so to speak, a secret government in his country

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

All the great writers root their characters in true human behaviour.

— Ben Kingsley

Great is the art of beginning, but greater is the art of ending.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

We are great writers on the same dreadful typewriter

— Allen Ginsberg

Most of my success, I feel, comes from being a good editor as opposed to a great writer.

— Tucker Max

Everyone has access to a pen and paper, but to be a great writer is difficult.

— Pamela Yates

The great writer finds style as the mystic finds God, in his own soul.

— Havelock Ellis

Lizzy Weiss is such a great writer, and she really writes for the performances.

— Vanessa Marano