A Great Writer Quotes
Collection of top 100 famous quotes about A Great Writer
A Great Writer Quotes & Sayings
Happy to read and share the best inspirational A Great Writer quotes, sayings and quotations on Wise Famous Quotes.
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
![A Great Writer Quotes By William S. Burroughs: He [Samuel Beckett] is great, a very great](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/a-great-writer-quotes-by-william-s-burroughs-1632674.jpg "A Great Writer Quotes By William S. Burroughs: He [Samuel Beckett] is great, a very great")
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
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
I think the internet is a great marketing toolbut 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
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
In the words of a great writer, we find our own neglected thoughts.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
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
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, so to speak, a secret government in his country
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
