There are writers who are great visionaries, who can depict huge movements - things like that. They're the great writers. I'm just… — Leonard Cohen 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
Working with great writers can be humbling and frightening, but it can also change you for good, forever. — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
It's hard to resist the magical thinking that the work habits of great writers are the key to their greatness. — Zoë Heller Copy Share Image
I want to contribute to the culture and keep great writers alive by telling the stories of their lives. — Fred Kaplan 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
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
All of the great writers whom I admire have died. I guess the most recent one would be Marquez. — Sam Shepard 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
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
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 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
“The death of self of which the great writers speak is no violent act. It is merely the joining of the great… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
I look for strong people. I don't like people who'll say yes to everything I might bring up. I want people who… — Anna Wintour Copy Share Image
I think one of the things the writers' festival does that is very good is that it brings writers from around the… — Nick Earls Copy Share Image
As for the multiple editions, in the case of a truly great writer - Shakespeare, Emily Dickinson, Proust, someone with a canon… — Judith Thurman Copy Share Image
“I guess it's like James Joyce when he was a kid, you know. He hung out with all the great writers of… — Art Pepper 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
I'm not going to lay down in words the lure of this place. Every great writer in the land, from Faulkner to… — Chris Rose Copy Share Image
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
At difficult times of my life, books have been an incredible comfort. When I was 12, I changed schools and my parents… — Elliot Perlman Copy Share Image
One of the traps of adolescence is the sort of paranoid resentment that somehow you're never going to match up and that… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
“Not all great writers may seem great to us, regardless of how often and how hard we try to see their virtues.… — Francine Prose Copy Share Image
The author with the greatest influence on me is my friend Stephen Harrigan, who critiques everything I write before I even bother… — Elizabeth Crook 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
The really great writers are people like Emily Bront� who sit in a room and write out of their limited experience and… — James A. Michener Copy Share Image
I haven't stuck to any formula. Most great writers stick to the same style, but I wanted to be more various — Irwin Shaw Copy Share Image
All great writers are schizophrenics, you know what I'm saying? 'Cause they switch up. They become the person when they write. — LL Cool J Copy Share Image
I don't consider myself a great writer, but I would like to think that I can at least proof- read. — Aimee Mann Copy Share Image
The meaningful Broadway experiences of my life have been plays by great writers with excellent casts. — Noah Reid Copy Share Image
I've known Shawn for several years. And he's just an amazing talent. He's a great writer, a marvelous, marvelous guitar player, and… — Guy Clark Copy Share Image
Canada has always been a great place for literature. It's strong and growing stronger, and there will always be reading, and there… — Ruth Ozeki 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
He [Samuel Beckett] is great, a very great writer. Any modern writer is bound to be influenced by [James] Joyce. Of course,… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
Any good writer is going to be well-received and is going to not be well-received; that's how you know you're a great… — Karrine Steffans 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
As actors, we were fighting that tooth and nail because of fear, because language is a crutch and dialogue is a crutch,… — Charlize Theron Copy Share Image
I hate to see great writers like Ringel and Ansen and Jan Stuart (among many others) being put out to pastures because… — Alonso Duralde 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
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
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