Best Great Writer Quotes
69 Great Writer quotes by 65 unique authors
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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 writer put it,…
— Fiona Shaw
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My dad was an editor and a writer, and that's really where I would have liked to have gone. But the genetic link was not…
— Anne M. Mulcahy
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It is the little writer rather than the great writer who seems never to quote, and the reason is that he is never really doing…
— Havelock Ellis
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The need to express oneself in writing springs from a mal-adjustment to life, or from an inner conflict which the adolescent (or the grown man)…
— Andre Maurois
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The great writer finds style as the mystic finds God, in his own soul.
— Havelock Ellis
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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 writer.
— Karrine Steffans
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You know, that's kind of the thing, I can't freestyle and I used to always wonder why I couldn't, and when I would try once…
— Bubba Sparxxx
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Lizzy Weiss is such a great writer, and she really writes for the performances.
— Vanessa Marano
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Farber had a huge effect on me as a writer. I don't mean I write like him. Farber is, first of all, a great stylist,…
— Greil Marcus
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If I'd learned nothing else, it was this: If you want to be a great writer, be a man. If you can't be a man,…
— Julianna Baggott
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Listen to the Bee Gees and you can learn to be a great writer.
— Kara DioGuardi
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I'm not a great writer.
— E. L. James
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He was so good at everything he did. You can't call Ronnie Barker a comedian. He was an actor, and a great writer.
— Bruce Forsyth
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When I hear of the destruction of a species, I feel just as if all the works of some great writer have perished.
— Theodore Roosevelt
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Stallone is a great writer. He wrote one of the best screenplays ever written. Rocky. It is one of the biggest classics of all time.…
— Dolph Lundgren
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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
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My guiltiest pleasure is Harry Stephen Keeler. He may have been the greatest bad writer America has ever produced. Or perhaps the worst great writer.…
— Neil Gaiman
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I am hoping that I can be known as a great writer and actor some day, rather than a sex symbol.
— Steven Seagal
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For a country to have a great writer is like having a second government. That is why no regime has ever loved great writers, only…
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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In America, the race goes to the loud, the solemn, the hustler. If you think you're a great writer, you must say that you are.
— Gore Vidal
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The creations of a great writer are little more than the moods and passions of his own heart, given surnames and Christian names, and sent…
— William Butler Yeats
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Most of my success, I feel, comes from being a good editor as opposed to a great writer.
— Tucker Max
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A great writer reveals the truth even when he or she does not wish to.
— Tom Bissell
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hay he's a great writer and i like him a lot
— Jeff Kinney
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Sometimes you read a passage by a great writer, and you know what he says and how he says it will always be, for you,…
— Vincent Price
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