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

I have great respect for children. And I have great respect for their ability as writers. — Patricia MacLachlan

The lives great artists live and the books they write are two very different things. — Michael Cunningham

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

They say great themes make great novels.. but what these young writers don't understand is that there is no greater theme than men and women. — John O'Hara

A lot of writers and artists are like chefs who eat their own cooking in the kitchen and then deliver an empty plate with assurances that it's great. — Peter Schjeldahl

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

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. — Patti Smith

Four great adventures; read, learn, write and travel. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Working with great writers can be humbling and frightening, but it can also change you for good, forever. — Zadie Smith

I was a pretty good fighter. But it was the writers who made me great. — Jack Dempsey

Great writers leave us not just their works, but a way of looking at things. — Elizabeth Janeway

all of the great writers drank, except for Kafka and Nietzsche, neither of whom you exactly wanted to be when you grew up. — Anne Lamott

Above all things
read. Read the great stylists who cannot be copied rather than the successful writers who must not be copied. — Ngaio Marsh

I have always noticed that in portraits of really great writers the mouth is always firmly closed. — Gertrude Stein

It's great to be here. — A.D. Posey

Television in the last few years has been where all the great writers are going. TV now is what indie film used to be. — Jeff Daniels

Great orators who are not also great writers become very indistinct shadows to the generations following them. The spell vanishes with the voice. — Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Great writers are not those who tell us we shouldn't play with fire, but those who make our fingers burn. — Stephen Vizinczey

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

I knew Matt Damon and Ben Affleck were really talented. As actors, they were both studly young men, and they had great writers' chops. — Robin Williams

The great man who gives a true transcript of his mind fascinates and instructs. Most writers suppress individuality. They wish to please the public. — Robert Green Ingersoll

There are two kinds of writers; the great ones who can give you truths, and the lessor ones, who can only give you themselves. — Clifton Fadiman

I gave Joss Whedon and Judd Apatow their first writing jobs, as well as many other untried writers who went on to great success. — Roseanne Barr

There can be no great literature in America until her writers have learned to trust her implicitly and love her devoutly. — Ernest Hemingway,

I often felt myself to be an outsider, which is great training for all writers. — Karen Russell

The great wisdom for writers, perhaps for everybody, is to come to understand to be at one with their own tempo. — Alan Hollinghurst

Day after day, week after week; writing great fiction takes time, emotion, skill and effort. — Carla H. Krueger

The great writers can take us anywhere; but half the time they're taking us where we don't want to go. — Martin Amis

All great literary works influence us as writers, not their stories as much as their storytelling ability. — Michael Scott

It takes great courage to write great books. Find your courage and find your voice. — Kristen Lamb

Sometimes writers of no talent at all can write great acting scenes. Sometimes the very best writers can't write scenes that come to life. — Anita Loos

I did a lot of studying of great writers. I read that Hemingway rewrote 'The Sun Also Rises' 39 times. — Marv Levy

If you want to do something very praiseworthy and very saintly, make a child happy! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Great writers experience their dreams. They put them on paper, where others can read about them. — Ellen J. Barrier

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

Great writers say things that are so beautiful, the very act of repeating them makes life itself more beautiful. — Joe Queenan

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. — Alonso Duralde

Ed Wood served a great purpose - mainly making writers feel better about their work. — R. K. Milholland

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

Since great writers communicate a vision of existence, one can't borrow their methods. The method is married to the vision. — Norman Mailer

All of the great writers whom I admire have died. I guess the most recent one would be Marquez. — Sam Shepard

Don't be great at wishful thinking, you'll never get anything done. — Darrick Williams

Are there any writers on the literary scene whom I consider truly great? Yes: Truman Capote. — Truman Capote

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

Live an interesting life. Meet people. Read a lot and widely, learn from the great writers. — Michael Morpurgo

A creative writing program is only as good as its teachers, and I was fortunate in having two great writers as mentors. — Jay McInerney

A great word becomes a great sentence with great meaning from great writers who have a great imagination and who enchant greatness — Mark Peter Evans

I've been so lucky to work with some great, great writers: Tony Kushner and Yasmina Reza. — Marcia Gay Harden

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

You don't that often see writers being sought out when there are matters of great moment to discuss. And I think that's a loss. — Salman Rushdie

All great writers have issues with their hometowns; guess I'm not the exception. — Chris Colfer

Thought for the day: Twitter ... 140 character limit ... must be a great tool for fortune cookie writers ... — E.A. Bucchianeri

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

Writers are given one great story to tell their story. I'm telling my story as a political document. — Larry Kramer

The great novelists are philosophical novelists
that is, the contrary of thesis-writers. — Albert Camus

Many writers lay very great stress upon some definite moral purpose, at which they profess to aim their works. — Nathaniel Hawthorne

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

In my experience, the really great writers enjoy the editorial process. — Mary Norris

If somebody insists to be your enemy, you insist more to be his friend! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Great writers are the saints for the godless. — Anita Brookner

I have a great book. It's called Stantasyland. Except I don't have the money to buy a million copies to put it on the bestsellers list. — Stanley Victor Paskavich

I'm with you in Rockland, where we are great writers on this same dreadful typewriter. — Allen Ginsberg

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

It's no use imagining that bringing great writers together inevitably precipitates great conversation. — Edward St. Aubyn

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

All great writers begin with a good leather binding and a respectable title. — James M. Barrie

Talking to all those great writers and artists for the magazine was a form of graduate school for me. — Christopher Bollen

All the great writers are like that: the beauty of their sentences, like the beauty of a woman one has not yet met, is unforeseeable ... — Marcel Proust

To great writers, finished works weigh lighter than those fragments on which they labor their entire lives. — Walter Benjamin

The greatest artists see what is invisible to the masses. — A.D. Posey

Let's face it, the great comedians now that are handicapped in the looks department are tremendous writers. — Jack Black

The really great writers are people like Emily Bronte who sit in a room and write out of their limited experience and unlimited imagination. — James A. Michener

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

There are two excellent challengers against darkness in this universe: Powerful lights and great ideas! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

I know writers for whom the act of writing is a necessary chore. They suffer to write great work. I am very lucky that for me writing is a delight. — Denise Duhamel

Never correct or rewrite until the whole thing is down. — John Steinbeck

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

I think writers are the most narcissistic people. Well, I musn't say this, I like many of them, a great many of my friends are writers. — Sylvia Plath

Something taken off the page can sound great, I guess. Usually it doesn't. It seems like lately Pitchfork is trying to champion lyric writers more. — Stephen Malkmus

The great writers just kept bringing them out. They didn't care if they repeated themselves. — Irwin Shaw

There are some great, subversive female writers out there. Gender should not affect anything. It does, but it shouldn't. — Carla H. Krueger

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

There are dozens of great American writers who write about the family. — William Nicholson

I'm such a huge fan of fan fiction, to me it's a great way for readers to become writers. It's like putting the training wheels on for writing. — Hugh Howey

Writers are always a great nuisance to publishers. If they could do without them, they would. — Fay Weldon

The great thing about 'Justified' is that the writers will craft a scene, but if the actors come up with a great idea, they're 100% for it. — Neal McDonough

Those writers who lie on the watch for novelty can have little hope of greatness; for great things cannot have escaped former observation. — Samuel Johnson

All the great writers root their characters in true human behaviour. — Ben Kingsley

And what great writers actually pass on is not so much their words, but they hand on their breath at their moments of inspiration. — Natalie Goldberg

There are now 30-year-old Mexican writers who do great novels in which Mexico isn't even mentioned. — Carlos Fuentes

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

Try to see the world from the eyes of an old man! Old eyes are a good place to begin with for understanding the truths! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

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

I haven't stuck to any formula. Most great writers stick to the same style, but I wanted to be more various. — Irwin Shaw

My best advice for writers is: Have your adventures, make your mistakes, and choose your friends poorly - all these make for great stories. — Chuck Palahniuk

A good story is one liked. A great story is one that challenges thought, defiant and gets mouths talking. — Veronica Purcell

A great story is impossible to forget. — A.D. Posey

There's a great myth about cartoonists, writers and people that are on TV. — Shel Silverstein

There're so many great writers out there who aren't getting the exposure they deserve. — Jonathan Evison