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I had no aspirations to become a landscape photographer at all. In fact it was portraiture that was my beginning, I suppose. I have always… — Fay Godwin
Many great writers have been extraordinarily awkward in daily exchange, but the greatest give the impression that their style was nursed by the closest attention… — Thornton Wilder
A great writer has all 4 - but you can still be a good writer with only 1 and 2. — Susan Sontag
Great writers are not those who tell us we shouldn’t play with fire, but those who make our fingers burn. — Stephen Vizinczey
Great writers leave us not just their works, but a way of looking at things. — Elizabeth Janeway
I haven't stuck to any formula. Most great writers stick to the same style, but I wanted to be more various — Irwin Shaw
From Finding the Center to Reading and Writing: A Personal Account, the story remains the same: in a journey unique to myself, I left my… — Caryl Phillips
One of the traps of adolescence is the sort of paranoid resentment that somehow you're never going to match up and that everybody else's life… — Stephen Fry
But I was, and still am, an avid reader and so when I first started I chose to photograph many of the great writers in… — Fay Godwin
My family is involved and my wife Brenda is a great, great writer. She helps me with the writing of everything and also sings with… — Rick Derringer
I look for strong people. I don't like people who'll say yes to everything I might bring up. I want people who can argue and… — Anna Wintour
It is splendid to be a great writer, to put men into the frying pan of your words and make them pop like chestnuts. — Gustave Flaubert
Why is contemporary China short of works that speak directly? Because we writers cannot speak directly, or rather we can only speak in an indirect… — Murong Xuecun
Most great writers suffer and have no idea how good they are. Most bad writers are very confident. Be willing to be a child and… — Mary Karr
Great writers create; writers of smaller gifts copy — W. Somerset Maugham
Live an interesting life. Meet people. Read a lot and widely, learn from the great writers — Michael Morpurgo
David O. Russell is probably my favorite filmmaker. He's not only a great director, but he's also a great writer. — Adam McKay
The only authors whom I acknowledge as American are the journalists. They, indeed, are not great writers, but they speak the language of their countrymen,… — Alexis de Tocqueville
Every great writer is a writer of history, let him treat on almost any subject he may. — Walter Savage Landor
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 plays really good… — Guy Clark
English literature is a glorious inheritance which is open to all - there are no barriers, no coupons, and no restrictions. In the English language… — Winston Churchill
The great writers of aphorisms read as if they had all known each other well. — Elias Canetti
A creative writing program is only as good as its teachers, and I was fortunate in having two great writers as mentors. — Jay McInerney
I'm pleased to have outsold great writers. But I'm not insane - I realize I am a writer people buy to take on vacation. — Maeve Binchy
Edgar Allan Poe is considered the great writer of horror stories, perhaps the greatest - I will say the greatest — William Friedkin

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