Great writers Quotes

hay he's a great writer and i like him a lot

— Jeff Kinney

Jesse Joyce is a great writer.

— Dave Attell

I'm not a great writer.

— E. L. James

I'm not a great writer. I'm a great rewriter.

— Paddy Chayefsky

The great writers touch life often.

— Anonymous

Great writers are the saints for the godless.

— Anita Brookner

Mediocre writers borrow; great writers steal.

— T. S. Eliot

The web series format is great for writers.

— Arjun Mathur

A great writer reveals the truth even when he or she does not wish to.

— Tom Bissell

For a country to have a great writer is to have another government.

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Every great writer is a writer of history, let him treat on almost any subject he may.

— Walter Savage Landor

Listen to the Bee Gees and you can learn to be a great writer.

— Kara DioGuardi

“All great writers have issues with their hometowns; guess I'm not the exception.”

— Chris Colfer

The great writers of aphorisms read as if they had all known each other well.

— Elias Canetti

Great writers probably shouldn't be ranked, at least not by me.

— Anthony Doerr

“Good writers look it up. Great writers experience it.”

— Ebony Easter

Great writers say things that are so beautiful, the very act of repeating them makes life itself more beautiful.

— Joe Queenan

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

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

I see this quality [real interest and joy] in the work of [Pavel] Chekhov, of course, and [Alexei] Tolstoy and really just…

— George Saunders

It's great working with great writers and directors because you're getting paid for something you love and want to do.

— Bill Duke

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

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

David O. Russell is probably my favorite filmmaker. He's not only a great director, but he's also a great writer.

— Adam McKay

There's lots of things that can't make it in the world that are worth making. There are lots of great artists who…

— Dana Spiotta

I don't really think that writers, even great writers, are prophets, or sages, or Messiah-like figures; writing is a lonely, sedentary occupation…

— Angela Carter

“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

How simple the writing of literature would be if it were only necessary to write in another way what has been well…

— Ernest Hemingway

Roles came to me. I was very, very lucky in that respect. Great directors, great writers, great producers - they saw something…

— Angela Lansbury

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

I think someday you're going to be a great writer," he said. "But" he added maliciously, "first you'll have to suffer a…

— Henry Miller

My guiltiest pleasure is Harry Stephen Keeler. He may have been the greatest bad writer America has ever produced. Or perhaps the…

— Neil Gaiman

I wrote Baghdad Central right after translating a great work by Ibrahim al-Koni, who is sort of a master of Arab fiction.…

— Elliott Colla

One thing I'd do was put a great writer's book beside the typewriter and... type out a beautiful and moving paragraph... and…

— Gina Berriault

I could never write about the sort of people John Cheever or John Updike or even Margaret Atwood write about. I don't…

— Jim Woodring

One of the most insidious myths in American wine culture is that a wine is good if you like it. Liking a…

— Karen MacNeil

Here's what I love: when a great writer turns me into a Jew from Chicago, a lesbian out of South Carolina, or…

— Pat Conroy

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

And I love Jane Austen's use of language too--the way she takes her time to develop a phrase and gives it room…

— Andrew Clements

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