Great Writers Quotes

117 quotes by 104 authors

Great writers are the saints for the godless. — Anita Brookner
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
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
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
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
The only valid reason to use clichÃ©s is in the speech of a character. Cliches are indications of sloppy writing. The writer does not respect… — Leonard Bishop
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
Great writers arrive among us like new diseases - threatening, powerful, impatient for patients to pick up their virus, irresistible. — Craig Raine
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
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
Mediocre writers borrow; great writers steal. — Thomas Stearns Eliot
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
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
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
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
I'm not a great writer. I'm a great rewriter. — Paddy Chayefsky
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
I mean, the problem is, I think I'm a great writer. — Aaron Eckhart
Jesse Joyce is a great writer. — Dave Attell
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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