Great writers arrive among us like new diseases - threatening, powerful, impatient for patients to pick up their virus, irresistible. — Craig Raine 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
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
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
“You become a great writer by writing lots and lots of stories, not by rewriting the same story over and over again.” — Scott William Carter Copy Share Image
You hear all this whining going on, 'Where are our great writers?' The thing I might feel doleful about is: 'Where are… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
It is fascinating to me that when the lists of the great writers are trotted out year after year, you often find… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
There are some great writers who are great talkers, but there are more great writers who are not great talkers. People seem… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
My dad was an editor and a writer, and that's really where I would have liked to have gone. But the genetic… — Anne M. Mulcahy Copy Share Image
The original Dean Martin Comedy Hour handed me some hysterical sketches. I've got highlights on tons of these variety shows, given to… — Ruth Buzzi Copy Share Image
On one plane, the very great writers and the popular romancers of the lower order always meet. They use all of themselves,… — V. S. Pritchett Copy Share Image
Language pedants hew to an oral tradition of shibboleths that have no basis in logic or style, that have been defied by… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
If you want to teach women to be great writers, you should show them the best, and the best was often done… — A. S. Byatt Copy Share Image
I did do a presentation pilot with Jesse Eisenberg and he's wonderful. He's such a great writer. He directed me and he… — Parker Posey Copy Share Image
In company with people of your own trade you ordinarily speak of other writers' books. The better the writers the less they… — Ernest Hemingway 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
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
The blog is certainly another tool for writers out there to break their way in. But being a blogger does not make… — Julie Powell Copy Share Image
But I was, and still am, an avid reader and so when I first started I chose to photograph many of the… — Fay Godwin Copy Share Image
I hate to see great writers like Ringel and Ansen and Jan Stuart (among many others) being put out to pastures because… — Alonso Duralde Copy Share Image
As actors, we were fighting that tooth and nail because of fear, because language is a crutch and dialogue is a crutch,… — Charlize Theron Copy Share Image
I was intoxicated by the romantic poetry of our great writers. I arranged the world according to my private use, looking at… — Wladyslaw Stanislaw Reymont Copy Share Image
I don't consider myself a great writer, but I would like to think that I can at least proof- read. — Aimee Mann Copy Share Image
I haven't stuck to any formula. Most great writers stick to the same style, but I wanted to be more various — Irwin Shaw Copy Share Image
All great writers are schizophrenics, you know what I'm saying? 'Cause they switch up. They become the person when they write. — LL Cool J 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
The meaningful Broadway experiences of my life have been plays by great writers with excellent casts. — Noah Reid 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
Canada has always been a great place for literature. It's strong and growing stronger, and there will always be reading, and there… — Ruth Ozeki Copy Share Image
It's hard not to be enthusiastic when you like what you're doing and I love what I do. I love writing stories,… — Stan Lee Copy Share Image
I read continually and don't understand writers who say they don't read while working on a book. For a start, a book… — Paul Lynch Copy Share Image
I don't really think that writers, even great writers, are prophets, or sages, or Messiah-like figures; writing is a lonely, sedentary occupation… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
There's lots of things that can't make it in the world that are worth making. There are lots of great artists who… — Dana Spiotta Copy Share Image
“The great writers, Conrad, Maugham and Melville, spent only a few years in the South Seas, but their memory of those waters… — James A. Michener 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
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
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
I think someday you're going to be a great writer," he said. "But" he added maliciously, "first you'll have to suffer a… — Henry Miller 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
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