Best Great Writers Quotations

117 Great Writers quotes by 103 unique authors

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
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
All the great writers root their characters in true human behaviour. — Ben Kingsley
Language pedants hew to an oral tradition of shibboleths that have no basis in logic or style, that have been defied by great writers for… — Steven Pinker
Why, for example, do the great writers use anticipation instead of surprise? Because surprise is merely an instrument of the unusual, whereas anticipation of a… — Roger Rosenblatt
I am hoping that I can be known as a great writer and actor some day, rather than a sex symbol. — Steven Seagal
Yet, it ought to be obvious that good music generally occupies a higher plane that mere politics. Great writers can express moods through melody and… — Tony Snow
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
Good writers borrow from other writers. Great writers steal from them outright. — Aaron Sorkin
I have always noticed that in portraits of really great writers the mouth is always firmly closed. — Gertrude Stein
I can well imagine that certain writers, even writers that we'd consider today very great writers, may not necessarily have tested highly on IQ just… — Daniel Tammet
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
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
Most of my success, I feel, comes from being a good editor as opposed to a great writer. — Tucker Max
A great writer reveals the truth even when he or she does not wish to. — Tom Bissell
Anyone who has the temerity to write about Jane Austen is aware of [two] facts: first, that of all great writers she is the most… — Virginia Woolf
I know some very great writers, writers you love who write beautifully and have made a great deal of money, and not one of them… — Anne Lamott
great writers are indecent people they live unfairly saving the best part for paper. good human beings save the world so that bastards like me… — Charles Bukowski
hay he's a great writer and i like him a lot — Jeff Kinney
All great writers have, of course, an atmosphere in which they seem most at their ease and at their best; a mood of the general… — Virginia Woolf
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
I'm not going to lay down in words the lure of this place. Every great writer in the land, from Faulkner to Twain to Rice… — Chris Rose
We are great writers on the same dreadful typewriter — Allen Ginsberg
And I love Jane Austen's use of language too--the way she takes her time to develop a phrase and gives it room to grow, so… — Andrew Clements
Here's what I love: when a great writer turns me into a Jew from Chicago, a lesbian out of South Carolina, or a black woman… — Pat Conroy

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