Great writers leave us not just their works, but a way of looking at things. — Elizabeth Janeway 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
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
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
Maybe it’s not, in the end, the virtues of others that so wrenches our hearts as it is the sense of almost… — Michael Cunningham 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
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
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
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
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 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
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
Great writers, I discovered, were not to be bowed down before and worshipped, but embraced and befriended. Their names resounded through history… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
How many really great writers are there who are totally non-political? You can hear the French Revolution in the poetry of [Percy… — Adam Hochschild 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 writer who cannot sometimes throw away a thought about which another man would have written dissertations, without worry whether or not… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
Talking to all those great writers and artists for the magazine was a form of graduate school for me. — Christopher Bollen Copy Share Image
The great writers like Chekhov know that tragedy and laughter are just a few steps from each other ... but it took… — Vanessa Redgrave Copy Share Image
For the social ecologist language is not "communication." It is not just "message." It is substance. It is the cement that holds… — Peter Drucker 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 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
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
Pour e crire ce livre essentiel, le seul livre vrai, un grand e crivain n'a pas, dans le sens courant, a' l'inventer… — Marcel Proust 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
