I have always noticed that in portraits of really great…

“As anyone who's ever taken an Ethiopian bus knows, there is an unwritten rule that the windows must remain firmly closed.”

— Tahir Shah

Any magazine-cover hack can splash paint around wildly and call it a nightmare, or a witches sabbath or a portrait of the devil; but…

— Anonymous

I murmured to Picasso that I liked his portrait of Gertrude Stein. Yes, he said, everybody said that she does not look like it,…

— Gertrude Stein

Many great writers have been extraordinarily awkward in daily exchange, but the greatest give the impression that their style was nursed by the closest…

— Thornton Wilder

I've never felt grounded because of my ancestry or my gender. I think until women get away from that they're not going to be…

— Patti Smith

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

— Pat Conroy

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

— Paul Rudd

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 plays really…

— Guy Clark

Intellectuals of [Albert] Camus' age who had previously disliked him now appreciate him. And at that point we come back to literature, and it's…

— Catherine Camus

Great writers zealously learn the craft of their profession so they can release the power and the depth of their imagination and experience.

— Leonard Bishop

I haven't stuck to any formula. Most great writers stick to the same style, but I wanted to be more various

— Irwin Shaw

It's really hard to write a screenplay, it's nauseating. All those great writers that tried to write screenplays, they couldn't do it, most of…

— Hampton Fancher

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

— Walter Savage Landor

The blog is certainly another tool for writers out there to break their way in. But being a blogger does not make you a…

— Julie Powell

English literature is a glorious inheritance which is open to all - there are no barriers, no coupons, and no restrictions. In the English…

— Winston Churchill