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

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

David O. Russell is probably my favorite filmmaker. He's not only a great director, but he's also a great writer. — Adam McKay

I have so many great things going on in my life that I don't need to pay attention to some writer. — Paris Hilton

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

Edgar Allan Poe is considered the great writer of horror stories, perhaps the greatest - I will say the greatest — William Friedkin

Jesse Joyce is a great writer. — Dave Attell

Every great or even every very good writer makes the world over according to his own specifications. — Raymond Carver

The great liberty of the fictional writer is to let the imagination out of the traces and see it gallop off over the horizon. — Will Self

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

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

It is true that, with TV, a writer gets a great deal more respect. — Jon Spaihts

To be of mixed blood is a great gift for a writer. I have one foot on tribal lands and one foot in middle-class life. — Louise Erdrich

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

A great writer is the friend and benefactor of his readers. — Thomas Babington Macaulay

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

Detroit, my 'great' subject, made me the person I am, consequently the writer I am - for better or worse. — Joyce Carol Oates

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

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

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

In order to be a great writer a person must have a built-in, shockproof crap detector. — Ernest Hemingway,

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

It's always great when you want scientific fact to get a really good science fiction writer to talk to you about it. — Robin Williams

You become a great writer by writing. — Peter Thiel

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

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

A great reader makes a great writer — Kate DiCamillo

The woods are full of regional writers, and it is the great horror of every serious Southern writer that he will become one of them. — Flannery O'Connor

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

To be a great writer you must be fearless with your words. — Karmel Graham

A great writer weaves words like a painter mixes colors. — James D. Maxon

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

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

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

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

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

It is through the ghost [writer] that the great gift of knowledge which the inarticulate have for the world can be made available. — Elizabeth Janeway

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

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

Some writers aren't writers, they are mere escapees' and refugees' on an exile from the jungle of thoughts. — Michael Bassey Johnson

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

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

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

I am hoping that I can be known as a great writer and actor some day, rather than a sex symbol. — Steven Seagal

Most of my success, I feel, comes from being a good editor as opposed to a great writer. — Tucker Max

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

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

I'm not a very creative person, you know? I'm not really an art person. I'm not a great reader or writer or artist or musician. — Tom Brady

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

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

Be a great writer when you write your life's song. — Debasish Mridha

That's what ever great writer, I believe, has done over the course of time - is they've figured out new ways of telling the same stories. — James Frey

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

Being a great writer is not the same as writing great. — John Updike

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

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

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

American writers want to be not good but great; and so are neither. — Gore Vidal

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

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

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

When I'm out and about, I'll text or email myself from my phone. A smart phone is a great tool for a writer. — Steven Hall

It's a great day when you meet a new writer, isn't it? It's like an introduction to a best friend you didn't know existed just hours before. — Victoria Connelly

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

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

I look for the kind of text that doesn't look like the writer I'm considering. Plutarch is a great example. — John D'Agata

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

great intelligence in a writer if his similes — Arthur Schopenhauer

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 cheap writer has an expensive thoughts. — J. Limbu

A great writer has all 4 - but you can still be a good writer with only 1 and 2. — Susan Sontag

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

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

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

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