Best Great Writers Sayings

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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
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
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
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
The great writer finds style as the mystic finds God, in his own soul. — Havelock Ellis
There's sort of a very symbiotic thing that happens on good TV shows with great writers, which is that they start to sort of embrace… — Lucas Neff
There's lots of things that can't make it in the world that are worth making. There are lots of great artists who never make it,… — Dana Spiotta
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
Almost all great writers have as their motif, more or less disguised, the passage from childhood to maturity, the clash between the thrill of expectation… — Andre Maurois
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
Lizzy Weiss is such a great writer, and she really writes for the performances. — Vanessa Marano
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
It's no use imagining that bringing great writers together inevitably precipitates great conversation. — Edward St Aubyn
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
The original Dean Martin Comedy Hour handed me some hysterical sketches. I've got highlights on tons of these variety shows, given to me by their… — Ruth Buzzi
Listen to the Bee Gees and you can learn to be a great writer. — Kara DioGuardi
Television in the last few years has been where all the great writers are going. TV now is what indie film used to be. — Jeff Daniels
Since great writers communicate a vision of existence, one can't borrow their methods. The method is married to the vision. — Norman Mailer
I'm not a great writer. — E. L. James
Talking to all those great writers and artists for the magazine was a form of graduate school for me. — Christopher Bollen
Many great writers address audiences who do not exist; to address passionately and sometimes with very great wisdom people who do not exist has this… — Wyndham Lewis
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
Great writers zealously learn the craft of their profession so they can release the power and the depth of their imagination and experience. — Leonard Bishop
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
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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