If a given scientist had not made a given discovery, someone else would have done so a little later. Johann Mendel dies… — Jean Rostand Copy Share Image
Great writers know what to cut out. It's the same in life. Clear ambitions. Clear relationships. This is the stuff of good… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
I'm a strong believer that you have to have an equal opportunity to fail and to try things that are hard. I… — Condoleezza Rice Copy Share Image
Sometimes you read a passage by a great writer, and you know what he says and how he says it will always… — Vincent Price Copy Share Image
Most great writers suffer and have no idea how good they are. Most bad writers are very confident. Be willing to be… — Mary Karr 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
I know that one is able to win people far more by the spoken that by the written word, and that every… — Adolf Hitler 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
Most of my success, I feel, comes from being a good editor as opposed to a great writer. — Tucker Max Copy Share Image
I guess I'm not jaded because I still believe that there are good films out there, and there are great directors, and… — Elijah Wood Copy Share Image
As a songwriter, I was influenced by David Bowie - a great writer. A class above everybody in so many ways. Lennon… — Rick Wakeman 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
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
No writer who knows the great writers who did not receive the Prize can accept it other than with humility. There is… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
I'm not on the run from anything and I'm not at all clear about what I'm running towards. But as some great… — Fiona Shaw 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
On a court full of great writers, I shouldn't say full of - there have been some bad writers on the court… — Dahlia Lithwick Copy Share Image
Johnson is wise, Boswell foolish; Johnson warns and abstains, Boswell plunges; Johnson is rather a great man writing than a greatwriter, Boswell… — Marvin Mudrick 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
The need to express oneself in writing springs from a mal-adjustment to life, or from an inner conflict which the adolescent (or… — Andre Maurois 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
Maybe you could be a great writer - maybe even good enough to write a book or articles in a newspaper -… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
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