Every great writer is a writer of history, let him treat on almost any subject he may. — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
A great writer reveals the truth even when he or she does not wish to. — Tom Bissell Copy Share Image
A great writer is, so to speak, a secret government in his country — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
Great is the art of beginning, but greater is the art of ending. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
Everyone has access to a pen and paper, but to be a great writer is difficult. — Pamela Yates Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Edgar Allan Poe is considered the great writer of horror stories, perhaps the greatest - I will say the greatest — William Friedkin Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Great writers are not those who tell us we shouldn’t play with fire, but those who make our fingers burn. — Stephen Vizinczey Copy Share Image
It's no use imagining that bringing great writers together inevitably precipitates great conversation. — Edward St Aubyn 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
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
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 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
“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
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
When you got source material, whether it's a play or a book - a great writer often appreciates being adapted and developed.… — Jude Law Copy Share Image
There are many great writers out there and, actually, great scripts. The problem is - and this is what I've always felt,… — Paul Rudd Copy Share Image
it is not unusual to hate great writers before we learn to love them. Because they have created something that did not… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
Mark Twain was so good with crowds that he became, in competition with singers and dancers and actors and acrobats, one of… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 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
“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
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
Most of my success, I feel, comes from being a good editor as opposed to a great writer. — Tucker Max Copy Share Image
I've been so lucky to work with some great, great writers: Tony Kushner and Yasmina Reza. — Marcia Gay Harden Copy Share Image
The great writer finds style as the mystic finds God, in his own soul. — Havelock Ellis Copy Share Image
Lizzy Weiss is such a great writer, and she really writes for the performances. — Vanessa Marano 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
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