I think Jesse Eisenberg is such a great writer. He was a great director and really tough. — Parker Posey Copy Share Image
Great writers leave us not just their works, but a way of looking at things. — Elizabeth Janeway Copy Share Image
All great writers begin with a good leather binding and a respectable title. — James M. Barrie Copy Share Image
Live an interesting life. Meet people. Read a lot and widely, learn from the great writers — Michael Morpurgo Copy Share Image
There is something to be said when you have great writers, and they write, and they write. — Jamie Hector Copy Share Image
Every great writer is a writer of history, let him treat on almost what subject he may. — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
I love and care about literature, and great writers are our teachers. You're studying their mind when you read their work. — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
I've never felt grounded because of my ancestry or my gender. I think until women get away from that they're not going… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
For a country to have a great writer is like having another government. That's why no regime has ever loved great writers,… — Alexander Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
Television in the last few years has been where all the great writers are going. TV now is what indie film used… — Jeff Daniels 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
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
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
I have always noticed that in portraits of really great writers the mouth is always firmly closed. — Gertrude Stein 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
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
The good writer, the great writer, has what I have called the three S's: the power to see, to sense, and to… — Lawrence Clark Powell 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
The impulse to write the poem, that impulse is a great dramatic impulse. But hell, anybody could write a play. I do… — August Wilson Copy Share Image
There are some great writers who are great talkers, but there are more great writers who are not great talkers. People seem… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
If you want to teach women to be great writers, you should show them the best, and the best was often done… — A. S. Byatt Copy Share Image
An understandable hunger for potential clients tempts many [career counseling therapists] to overpromise, like creative writing teachers who, out of greed or… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
I've written about 2,000 short stories; I've only published 300 and I feel I'm still learning. Any man who keeps working is… — Ray Bradbury 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
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
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
“The great writers have always been great readers, but that does not mean that they read all the books that, in their… — Anonymous 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
The letters of famous people can be placed into two categories: there is the type of letter which becomes itself a valuable… — Muriel Spark Copy Share Image
“All great writers share one thing in common: They finished their books.” — M. Kirin Copy Share Image
A great writer has all 4 - but you can still be a good writer with only 1 and 2. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
I consider William Gay one of the great writers that no one has ever heard of. — W. Earl Brown 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
Most of my success, I feel, comes from being a good editor as opposed to a great writer. — Tucker Max Copy Share Image
Everyone has access to a pen and paper, but to be a great writer is difficult. — Pamela Yates Copy Share Image
The great writer finds style as the mystic finds God, in his own soul. — Havelock Ellis Copy Share Image
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