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A great writer reveals the truth even when he or she does not wish to. — Tom Bissell

Listen to the Bee Gees and you can learn to be a great writer. — Kara DioGuardi

I feel like I'm a secondary artist, a kind of a conduit for the writer, and if it's a good writer, then I have a great road map. — Mamie Gummer

Disney was not a good animator, he didn't draw well at all, but he was always a great idea man, and a good writer. — Chuck Jones

Being a good observer is a great tool to have as a writer, just taking the world in. — Lauren Conrad

It's hard to read good fiction when I am writing, because if it is really good I catch myself sort of inadvertently imitating a great writer. — John Grisham

Being a writer is great, and being a parent is great, and I hate Marching Band. — MaryJanice Davidson

Jesse Joyce is a great writer. — Dave Attell

I have a great deal of empathy for anyone who's having a hard time. I believe this ability to see another's viewpoint has served me well as a writer. — Alex Flinn

Hats off to Tavia Gilbert who made Bones alive for me. What a great writer and narrator team. You make listening fun!" — Tavia Gilbert

Beside every great writer is a great listener. — Nanette L. Avery

...a great future behind him, already — Angela Carter

Don't be discouraged if you think you're not a great writer because terrible writers are successful in Hollywood — David Seltzer

As I have encountered difficult moments in my own life, I have been privileged to learn from the great men I have come to know as a writer. — Candice Millard

I thought I could write. So it was my intention to start off as a writer. But I wasn't really great at delivering the word at the end of the day. — Lee Daniels

I know I'm not a great writer. I'm an extremely gifted oral communicator, but when it comes to writing, I'm just a beginner. — Marianne Williamson

I'm not a great writer. — E.L. James

My father was a frustrated writer. I think he wanted to write the great American novel. — Anne Waldman

It is splendid to be a great writer, to put men into the frying pan of your imagination and make them pop like chestnuts. — Gustave Flaubert

You cannot be a great writer in a shop where words are sold in tens and twenties. — Rick Aster

I hope and assume that every good comedy writer, no matter the age, has a moment where they discover how great Cheers is. — Amy Poehler

To be a good editor or a good writer, I think you really need to be a great reader first. — Karen Thompson Walker

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 truly great writer does not want to write. He wants the world to be a place in which he can live the life of the imagination. — Henry Miller

It is my desire to be a great writer. I know that I still have a mountain to climb to achieve that. — Guy Johnson

Sometimes I get jealous when I'm reading a great book by a younger writer. But 'White Tiger' is so good, I almost forgot to hate Aravind Adiga. — David Benioff

Lizzy Weiss is such a great writer, and she really writes for the performances. — Vanessa Marano

To be a writer is to constantly evolve and keep ones imagination expanding and that's what make a great author and artist. — Adona M. Pierre

Songwriting is something I really need to work on. I don't have very many songs but I really love it. I would love to be a great song writer some day. — Norah Jones

Exactly. Chekhov was a great writer, but not all novels have to follow his rules. Not all guns in stories have to be fired, Tamaru said. — Haruki Murakami

There's a saying by some great writer or other that no man is a hero to his valet. Perhaps everyone ought to have a valet. — Agatha Christie

Words mean more than we mean to express when we use them: so a whole book ought to mean a great deal more than the writer meant. — Lewis Carroll

A great writer is, so to speak, a second government in his country. And for that reason no regime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

You have to be in your middle thirties before you have anything worth saying. — Peter Bowen

For a country to have a great writer is like having another government, — Mark Bowden

Lost in a book is a great place to be found. — Shannon Taylor Hodnett

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

If a writer is daydreaming, leave them be. They could be plotting their next great story. — Graeme Roberts

TODAY IS A GREAT DAY TO MAKE ART. — M. Kirin

To be a great actor you just need to comprehend, so that's why I became a writer. — Johnathon Schaech

What a great thing! To be a writer! Words are something you can carry in your head. You can really 'travel light.' — Robert Creeley

I am a great writer. — Lailah Gifty Akita

if you want to be a great writer, you have to be a greed reader. — Imelda Akmal

I have thought for many years that the audience any creative writer imagines has a great effect on what gets written. — Pattiann Rogers

I'd like, each time out as a writer, to reinvent who I am and what I'm doing. That's one of the great pleasures and rewards of the occupation. — Richard Powers

I am, really, a great writer; my only difficulty is in finding great readers. — Frank Harris

As a writer, all you want to do is write for great actors. That's all. — Amy Sherman-Palladino

I think writing is such a great talent, and if I was better, I would love to be a writer. — Shiloh Fernandez

Every great writer is a great deceiver — Vladimir Nabokov

Being a writer in Hollywood is like going to Hitler's Eagle Nest with a great idea for a bar mitzvah. — David Mamet

I wasn't that great a chef, and I don't think I'm that great a writer. — Anthony Bourdain

All you have to do is put one word after another, and remember how great it feels to be a writer. — Stephanie Lennox

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

I think the writer makes a good story good or a good story bad. The writer has a great deal of responsibility. — Tom Robinson

We are very slow to recognise in the peculiar physiognomy of a new writer the model which is labelled "great talent" in our museum of general ideas. — Marcel Proust

He [Samuel Beckett] is great, a very great writer. Any modern writer is bound to be influenced by [James] Joyce. Of course, by Beckett as well. — William S. Burroughs

Every great writer is a great reader. — Lailah Gifty Akita

It's not a college degree that makes a writer. The great thing is to have a story to tell. — Polly Adler

When you're a writer, you're always looking for conflict. It's conflict that drives great stories. — William Kent Krueger

Thinking is a great joy for a good writer and a great torture for the bad one! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

The name of a great writer is usually bigger than the title of his book. Both literally and figuratively. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

As before, there is a great silence, with no end in sight. The writer surrenders, listening. — Jayne Anne Phillips

Milos Forman is a great director, Jim Brooks is a wonderful writer and director. — Twyla Tharp

Genre-spanning is the effort to make the live show interesting. It's also a great way to challenge yourself as a writer. — Jason Mraz

I don't consider myself a great writer, but I would like to think that I can at least proof- read. — Aimee Mann

Ernest Hemingway did a great deal toward making the writer an acceptable public figure; obviously, he was no sissy. — Irwin Shaw

Hay he's a great writer and i like him a lot — Jeff Kinney

What's the use of being a writer if you can't irritate a great many people? — Norman Mailer

I think the internet is a great marketing tool
but marketing is not my job. I'm a writer. My job is to write novels. — Bentley Little

I mean, the problem is, I think I'm a great writer. — Aaron Eckhart

Every great writer is a writer of history, let him treat on almost any subject he may. — Walter Savage Landor

I'm not a great joke writer, which is odd for a comic to say, but I'm not. — Lewis Black

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, write like one. — Julianna Baggott

A writer writes to a great extent to be read (let's admire those who say they don't, but not believe them). — Albert Camus

I'm not a great writer. I'm a great rewriter. — Paddy Chayefsky

I wish I was a great writer or a great journalist or a great scientist or a great artist; I'm not. — Nicolas Berggruen

As a writer, I always tend to take the liberty and the great artistic luxury of a composite form of writing. — Dwight Yoakam

Reading while I'm writing ideally inspires my competitive side. When I read great writers, I want to be a better writer. — Amity Gaige

Use all this life to make yourself a great writer, thoughtful and kind, slowly, surely over the years. — T.K. Naliaka

The great thing about being a writer is that you are always recreating yourself. — Martin Cruz Smith

Inside every great writer there is a naked girl trying to get out. — Chloe Thurlow

In the words of a great writer, we find our own neglected thoughts. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

My dad is a great writer. Naturally talented, naturally charming. He embodies that back-in-the-day cool. — Drake

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

She was not a writer herself but she was a very good reader, passionate and eclectic in her tastes, and my father had great faith in her judgments. — David Benioff

Words belong to each other, although, of course, only a great writer knows that the word incarnadine belongs to multitudinous seas. — Virginia Woolf

It doesn't take five novels to become a great writer ... it takes one novel rewritten five different times. — B. Chancellor Burgweger

I felt like I was never going to be a great writer. I felt like I was going to be a good writer at best. I wanted to be great at something. — Gene Weingarten

You become a great writer by writing. — Peter Thiel

The blog is certainly another tool for writers out there to break their way in. But being a blogger does not make you a great writer. — Julie Powell

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

Everyone has access to a pen and paper, but to be a great writer is difficult. — Pamela Yates

Perhaps the greatest illusion a writer ever creates is that his work is achieved without great effort or sacrifice. — David Alejandro Fearnhead

There are no "great" subjects for the creative writer; there are only the singular details of a single human life. — Richard Selzer

If you're going to be a writer you have to be one of the great ones ... After all, there are better ways to starve to death. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

I read Freud because I find him an excellent writer ... a writer of police thrillers that can be followed with great passion. — Italo Calvino

A great writer is a great writer ... Tolstoy was not a woman, but 'Anna Karenina' is still a pretty good book. — Phil Klay

A great writer is, so to speak, a secret government in his country — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

I was never a quick writer, but composed with great care and efforts. — Joseph Haydn

When you're reading some of the great plays, when you do what I call "taking up with a writer," something happens. — Al Pacino