I've been so lucky to work with some great, great writers: Tony Kushner and Yasmina Reza. — Marcia Gay Harden Copy Share Image
A great writer has all 4 - but you can still be a good writer with only 1 and 2. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
In order to be a great writer a person must have a built-in, shockproof crap detector. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
I consider William Gay one of the great writers that no one has ever heard of. — W. Earl Brown 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
He was so good at everything he did. You can't call Ronnie Barker a comedian. He was an actor, and a great… — Bruce Forsyth Copy Share Image
There are damn few great writers and I'm not one of them. While I could afford to I played with words. When… — Rex Stout Copy Share Image
I have always noticed that in portraits of really great writers the mouth is always firmly closed. — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
It's no use imagining that bringing great writers together inevitably precipitates great conversation. — Edward St Aubyn Copy Share Image
A great writer has a high respect for values. His essential function is to raise life to the dignity of thought, and… — Andre Maurois Copy Share Image
I wish I was a great writer or a great journalist or a great scientist or a great artist; I'm not. — Nicolas Berggruen Copy Share Image
“Great writers experience their dreams. They put them on paper, where others can read about them.” — Ellen J. Barrier Copy Share Image
When I hear of the destruction of a species, I feel just as if all the works of some great writer have… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“I read once that all great writers have issues with their hometowns; guess I'm no exception. You can't let your origins bring… — Chris Colfer Copy Share Image
People always seek to compare. They can take the new, but only if it is somehow connected to the familiar. We need… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
Farber had a huge effect on me as a writer. I don't mean I write like him. Farber is, first of all,… — Greil Marcus Copy Share Image
I sometimes imagine a great writer as a sort of God-surrogate: the writer is doing his or her human-best to emulate what… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
My job is to get people to write something truthful, something about truth and beauty - wherever they are - and to… — Grace Paley Copy Share Image
I can well imagine that certain writers, even writers that we'd consider today very great writers, may not necessarily have tested highly… — Daniel Tammet Copy Share Image
“The death of self of which the great writers speak is no violent act. It is merely the joining of the great… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
I look for strong people. I don't like people who'll say yes to everything I might bring up. I want people who… — Anna Wintour Copy Share Image
If a given scientist had not made a given discovery, someone else would have done so a little later. Johann Mendel dies… — Jean Rostand Copy Share Image
“Not all great writers may seem great to us, regardless of how often and how hard we try to see their virtues.… — Francine Prose Copy Share Image
The author with the greatest influence on me is my friend Stephen Harrigan, who critiques everything I write before I even bother… — Elizabeth Crook Copy Share Image
At difficult times of my life, books have been an incredible comfort. When I was 12, I changed schools and my parents… — Elliot Perlman Copy Share Image
One of the traps of adolescence is the sort of paranoid resentment that somehow you're never going to match up and that… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
The great writers to whom the world owes what religious liberty it possesses, have mostly asserted freedom of conscience as an indefeasible… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
The bible is very resonant. It has everything, creation, betrayal, lust, poetry, prophecy, sacrifice. All great things are in the bible and… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I'm not going to lay down in words the lure of this place. Every great writer in the land, from Faulkner to… — Chris Rose Copy Share Image
“All great writers share one thing in common: They finished their books.” — M. Kirin 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
Great writers zealously learn the craft of their profession so they can release the power and the depth of their imagination and… — Leonard Bishop Copy Share Image
The measure of a great writer is not how many weeks his books spend on the best-seller lists, but how many years… — Cal Thomas Copy Share Image
Insofar as we, critics of the black tradition, master our craft, we serve both to preserve our own traditions and to shape… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
Great writers say things that are so beautiful, the very act of repeating them makes life itself more beautiful. — Joe Queenan Copy Share Image
