Great Writers Quotes
Great Writers Quote of the day
The great writers of aphorisms read as if they had all known each other well.
Live an interesting life. Meet people. Read a lot and widely, learn from the great writers
You hear all this whining going on, "Where are our great writers?" The thing I might feel doleful about is: Where are the readers?
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 this country to try and earn a living.
Great writers arrive among us like new diseases - threatening, powerful, impatient for patients to pick up their virus, irresistible.
Television in the last few years has been where all the great writers are going. TV now is what indie film used to be.
I know that one is able to win people far more by the spoken that by the written word, and that every great movement on this globe owes its rise to the great speakers and not to the great writers.
Great writers say things that are so beautiful, the very act of repeating them makes life itself more beautiful.
The great writers just kept bringing them out. They didn't care if they repeated themselves.
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 great writers. I'd love to be doing all that again.
I don't consider myself a great writer, but I would like to think that I can at least proof- read.
I haven't stuck to any formula. Most great writers stick to the same style, but I wanted to be more various
Great writers zealously learn the craft of their profession so they can release the power and the depth of their imagination and experience.
Great writers are not those who tell us we shouldn’t play with fire, but those who make our fingers burn.
We are living in an era of such interesting new forms, and certainly narrative non-fiction has emerged as a major form. People who are great writers don't have to write novels anymore.
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 to colloquial speech.
In order to be a great writer a person must have a built-in, shockproof crap detector.
I hate to see great writers like Ringel and Ansen and Jan Stuart (among many others) being put out to pastures because print media is suffering.
I love and care about literature, and great writers are our teachers. You're studying their mind when you read their work.
Deirdre Maddon has an extraordinary, almost celestial way of telling a story. There are so many great writers now - although I also want to go back and read all of Dickens again.
I've never felt grounded because of my ancestry or my gender. I think until women get away from that they're not going to be great writers.
There are damn few great writers and I'm not one of them. While I could afford to I played with words. When I could no longer afford that I wrote for money.
It is fascinating to me that when the lists of the great writers are trotted out year after year, you often find lists without a single woman mentioned.
Great orators who are not also great writers become very indistinct shadows to the generations following them. The spell vanishes with the voice.
I think it's probably better to make a region your own, and then maybe you can go somewhere else, but a lot of great writers have stuck to one region.
Edgar Allan Poe is considered the great writer of horror stories, perhaps the greatest - I will say the greatest
It's hard to resist the magical thinking that the work habits of great writers are the key to their greatness.
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.
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.
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, and make themselves heard by them.
He was so good at everything he did. You can't call Ronnie Barker a comedian. He was an actor, and a great writer.
Talking to all those great writers and artists for the magazine was a form of graduate school for me.
On a court full of great writers, I shouldn't say full of - there have been some bad writers on the court over the years.
Great writers know what to cut out. It's the same in life. Clear ambitions. Clear relationships. This is the stuff of good story.
It's no use imagining that bringing great writers together inevitably precipitates great conversation.