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Any magazine-cover hack can splash paint around wildly and call it a nightmare, or a witches sabbath or a portrait of the devil; but only… — H P Lovecraft
Maybe it’s not, in the end, the virtues of others that so wrenches our hearts as it is the sense of almost unbearably poignant recognition… — Michael Cunningham
Great writers, I discovered, were not to be bowed down before and worshipped, but embraced and befriended. Their names resounded through history not because they… — Stephen Fry
Great writers say things that are so beautiful, the very act of repeating them makes life itself more beautiful. — Joe Queenan
I've written about 2,000 short stories; I've only published 300 and I feel I'm still learning. Any man who keeps working is not a failure.… — Ray Bradbury
I think someday you're going to be a great writer," he said. "But" he added maliciously, "first you'll have to suffer a bit. I mean… — Henry Miller
To write that essential book, a great writer does not need to invent it but merely to translate it, since it already exists in each… — Marcel Proust
My dad would go to work every day and write in a room full of funny people. He enjoyed it. I know great writers who… — Joss Whedon
For sure, without question, the writing is better on TV pound for pound than movies because the businesses have changed so much. So all the… — Rob Lowe
All of the great writers whom I admire have died. I guess the most recent one would be Marquez. — Sam Shepard
Working with great writers can be humbling and frightening, but it can also change you for good, forever. — Zadie Smith
The most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in, shock-proof, shit detector. This is the writer's radar and all great writers have had… — Ernest Hemingway
The really great writers are people like Emily Bront who sit in a room and write out of their limited experience and unlimited imagination. — James A. Michener
Do you know how many great writers, musicians, artists, scientists, inventors, theologians, and statesmen have died poor? All of them! You can't take it with… — Rock Cowles
I was very pleased, obviously, to have outsold such great writers. But I'm not insane - I do realize that I am a popular writer… — Maeve Binchy
For a country to have a great writer is like having another government. That's why no regime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones. — Alexander Solzhenitsyn
The great writers just kept bringing them out. They didn't care if they repeated themselves. — Irwin Shaw

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