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
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
“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
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 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
When I was in law school I was taught that the great writers were people like [Oliver Wendell] Holmes Jr. and [Benjamin… — Jeffrey Rosen 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
We are living in an era of such interesting new forms, and certainly narrative non-fiction has emerged as a major form. People… — Daniel Mendelsohn Copy Share Image
Even my colleagues don't read classic criticism. And my feeling is that if you don't do that then you're not really practicing… — Gary Giddins 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
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
“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
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
“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
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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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