Great writers Quote by Alain de Botton

It's important for all writers to try to figure out what they're doing.

— Vijay Seshadri

There comes a time in every writer's life when it becomes necessary to recognize what people really care about.

— Mark Kurlansky

Great writers leave us not just their works, but a way of looking at things.

— Elizabeth Janeway

As the news agenda goes into warp speed, it becomes ever more difficult for authors writing about current events to keep their books timely…

— Heather Brooke

It's hard to resist the magical thinking that the work habits of great writers are the key to their greatness.

— Zoë Heller

Writers are so important.

— Adam Driver

All great writers have, of course, an atmosphere in which they seem most at their ease and at their best; a mood of the…

— Virginia Woolf

I think that successful writers somehow capture truths that resonate with readers.

— Steven Gundry

There is a tendency for writers to be most exciting by whatever they just wrote. Sometimes that excitement is warranted. Sometimes on further listen…

— Stone Gossard

Writers always think their greatest work is just ahead of them.

— Ian Rankin

Writers are good at plucking out what they need here and there.

— Beverly Cleary

“The greatness of a writer has nothing to do with subject matter itself, only with how much the subject matter touches the author.”

— Boris Pasternak