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
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
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
“Great writers experience their dreams. They put them on paper, where others can read about them.” — Ellen J. Barrier 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
“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
I have always noticed that in portraits of really great writers the mouth is always firmly closed. — Gertrude Stein 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's been no nepotism in my acting artistic life, but I think it's been pretty clear in my writing life. I knew… — Aya Cash Copy Share Image
I have to say that The Simpsons comes from a huge number of great writers headed by Al Jean, the show-runner, and… — Matt Groening Copy Share Image
I fell in love with the idea of writing songs when I was a child. I thought I was going to be… — Leslie Bricusse Copy Share Image
Most great writers suffer and have no idea how good they are. Most bad writers are very confident. Be willing to be… — Mary Karr Copy Share Image
As a songwriter, I was influenced by David Bowie - a great writer. A class above everybody in so many ways. Lennon… — Rick Wakeman Copy Share Image
When you're in a band with three writers, three great writers, you only get one third of the writer thing. So that's… — Stevie Nicks Copy Share Image
Roles came to me. I was very, very lucky in that respect. Great directors, great writers, great producers - they saw something… — Angela Lansbury Copy Share Image
How simple the writing of literature would be if it were only necessary to write in another way what has been well… — Ernest Hemingway 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
Johnson is wise, Boswell foolish; Johnson warns and abstains, Boswell plunges; Johnson is rather a great man writing than a greatwriter, Boswell… — Marvin Mudrick Copy Share Image
Why is contemporary China short of works that speak directly? Because we writers cannot speak directly, or rather we can only speak… — Murong Xuecun Copy Share Image
I know some very great writers, writers you love who write beautifully and have made a great deal of money, and not… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
The need to express oneself in writing springs from a mal-adjustment to life, or from an inner conflict which the adolescent (or… — Andre Maurois Copy Share Image
“I guess it's like James Joyce when he was a kid, you know. He hung out with all the great writers of… — Art Pepper Copy Share Image
I remember that the single most vicious letter I ever read was the letter Hemingway wrote Scribners when they asked him to… — Larry McMurtry Copy Share Image
There are other great writers who are not read properly in their own day for the reason, perhaps, that their readers are… — Caroline Gordon 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
It's no use imagining that bringing great writers together inevitably precipitates great conversation. — Edward St Aubyn Copy Share Image
Since great writers communicate a vision of existence, one can't borrow their methods. The method is married to the vision. — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
Many great writers have been extraordinarily awkward in daily exchange, but the greatest give the impression that their style was nursed by… — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
With a great writer and a great writers' room, it makes the job of the actors way easier and much more enjoyable,… — Melissa Barrera Copy Share Image
Great writers arrive among us like new diseases - threatening, powerful, impatient for patients to pick up their virus, irresistible. — Craig Raine 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
That's the mark of a great writers' room - they start to look for things to give you that you can really… — Noah Reid 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
“A great word becomes a great sentence with great meaning from great writers who have a great imagination and who enchant greatness” — Mark Peter Evans 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
A creative writing program is only as good as its teachers, and I was fortunate in having two great writers as mentors. — Jay McInerney Copy Share Image
Great orators who are not also great writers become very indistinct shadows to the generations following them. The spell vanishes with the… — Thomas Bailey Aldrich Copy Share Image
Don't be discouraged if you think you're not a great writer because terrible writers are successful in Hollywood — David Seltzer Copy Share Image
“Great writers wield their words like a weapon; a double-edged sword to strike their readers with truth where they least expect it.… — Matthew D. Forgenti Copy Share Image
You know, that's kind of the thing, I can't freestyle and I used to always wonder why I couldn't, and when I… — Bubba Sparxxx Copy Share Image
