Every great writer is a writer of history, let him treat on almost what subject he may. — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
“All great writers share one thing in common: They finished their books.” — M. Kirin 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
“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
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
If I'd learned nothing else, it was this: If you want to be a great writer, be a man. If you can't… — Julianna Baggott Copy Share Image
David O. Russell is probably my favorite filmmaker. He's not only a great director, but he's also a great writer. — Adam McKay Copy Share Image
A great writer picks up on those things that matter. It’s almost like their radar is attuned to the most significant moments. — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
My dad would go to work every day and write in a room full of funny people. He enjoyed it. I know… — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
I think one of the things the writers' festival does that is very good is that it brings writers from around the… — Nick Earls Copy Share Image
The only authors whom I acknowledge as American are the journalists. They, indeed, are not great writers, but they speak the language… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
I have never pretended to be a great writer. I am totally immodest about being a great reporter and a good news… — Walter Cronkite 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
As for the multiple editions, in the case of a truly great writer - Shakespeare, Emily Dickinson, Proust, someone with a canon… — Judith Thurman 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
It's difficult not to color our perception of author's product with his personality. There are so many examples of this. What do… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
The first is that good writing consists of mastering the fundamentals (vocabulary, grammar, the elements of style) and then filling the third… — Stephen King 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
I had no aspirations to become a landscape photographer at all. In fact it was portraiture that was my beginning, I suppose.… — Fay Godwin 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
I see this quality [real interest and joy] in the work of [Pavel] Chekhov, of course, and [Alexei] Tolstoy and really just… — George Saunders 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
Deirdre Maddon has an extraordinary, almost celestial way of telling a story. There are so many great writers now - although I… — Rebecca Miller Copy Share Image
Television in the last few years has been where all the great writers are going. TV now is what indie film used… — Jeff Daniels Copy Share Image
For a country to have a great writer is like having another government. That's why no regime has ever loved great writers,… — Alexander Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
I've never felt grounded because of my ancestry or my gender. I think until women get away from that they're not going… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I love and care about literature, and great writers are our teachers. You're studying their mind when you read their work. — Natalie Goldberg 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
A great lathe operator commands several times the wage of an average lathe operator, but a great writer of software code is… — Bill Gates 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
If I have learned how to write fiction it's by working with great writers and getting them to explain their craft to… — Elliott Colla 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
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