Great Writers Quotes
117 quotes by 104 authors
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Great writers are the saints for the godless.
— Anita Brookner
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If a given scientist had not made a given discovery, someone else would have done so a little later. Johann Mendel dies unknown after having…
— Jean Rostand
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He's a great writer. If I didn't think so I wouldn't have tried to kill him... I was the champ and when I read his…
— Ernest Hemingway
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A great lathe operator commands several times the wage of an average lathe operator, but a great writer of software code is worth 10,000 times…
— Bill Gates
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Great orators who are not also great writers become very indistinct shadows to the generations following them. The spell vanishes with the voice.
— Thomas Bailey Aldrich
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The only valid reason to use clichés is in the speech of a character. Cliches are indications of sloppy writing. The writer does not respect…
— Leonard Bishop
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Unless a writer lives with a periodic delusion of his greatness, he will not continue writing. He must believe, against all reason and evidence, that…
— Leonard Bishop
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Great writers arrive among us like new diseases - threatening, powerful, impatient for patients to pick up their virus, irresistible.
— Craig Raine
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At difficult times of my life, books have been an incredible comfort. When I was 12, I changed schools and my parents split up. It…
— Elliot Perlman
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In company with people of your own trade you ordinarily speak of other writers' books. The better the writers the less they will speak about…
— Ernest Hemingway
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Mediocre writers borrow; great writers steal.
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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As a songwriter, I was influenced by David Bowie - a great writer. A class above everybody in so many ways. Lennon and McCartney, of…
— Rick Wakeman
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The writer who cannot sometimes throw away a thought about which another man would have written dissertations, without worry whether or not the reader will…
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
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The good writer, the great writer, has what I have called the three S's: the power to see, to sense, and to say. That is,…
— Lawrence Clark Powell
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A man can write one book that can be great, but this doesn't make him a great writer-just the writer of a great book. .…
— Anthony Burgess
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I'm not a great writer. I'm a great rewriter.
— Paddy Chayefsky
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A great writer created a world of his own and his readers are proud to live in it. A lesser writer may entice them in…
— Cyril Connolly
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I mean, the problem is, I think I'm a great writer.
— Aaron Eckhart
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Jesse Joyce is a great writer.
— Dave Attell
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I really enjoy English and poetry and writing classes. You do get writer's block when you're writing music, and having inspiration from other great writers…
— Taylor Momsen
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