There are many people writing songs. That is absolutely wonderful. Who knows, there may be some kid in diapers and he or… — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
I read continually and don't understand writers who say they don't read while working on a book. For a start, a book… — Paul Lynch Copy Share Image
great writers are indecent people they live unfairly saving the best part for paper. good human beings save the world so that… — Charles Bukowski 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
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
Any magazine-cover hack can splash paint around wildly and call it a nightmare, or a witches sabbath or a portrait of the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I've been dreaming about having a press forever, like the '90s. I've always known so many great writers who aren't as connected… — Michelle Tea Copy Share Image
A great writer is, so to speak, a secret government in his country — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 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
To write that essential book, a great writer does not need to invent it but merely to translate it, since it already… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Every great writer is a writer of history, let him treat on almost any subject he may. — Walter Savage Landor 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
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
The Night Journal received two awards that I'm terribly proud of - -the Spur from Western Writers of America, and the Willa… — Elizabeth Crook Copy Share Image
Yet, it ought to be obvious that good music generally occupies a higher plane that mere politics. Great writers can express moods… — Tony Snow Copy Share Image
Whether they're ghosts of great writers or people I loved - some died because of AIDS, others under mysterious circumstances - I… — Lynne Tillman 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
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
Edgar Allan Poe is considered the great writer of horror stories, perhaps the greatest - I will say the greatest — William Friedkin Copy Share Image
I did do a presentation pilot with Jesse Eisenberg and he's wonderful. He's such a great writer. He directed me and he… — Parker Posey 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
In order to be a great writer a person must have a built-in, shockproof crap detector. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
My dad was an editor and a writer, and that's really where I would have liked to have gone. But the genetic… — Anne M. Mulcahy 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
I'm pleased to have outsold great writers. But I'm not insane - I realize I am a writer people buy to take… — Maeve Binchy Copy Share Image
