Great Writing Quotes
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Great Writing Quotes & Sayings
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I always knew writing a novel was a great thing.
— James Salter
Putting words on paper regularly is part of the necessary discipline of writing. A journal is a great way to do that.
— Pearl Cleage
I've loved doing 'E.R.' for the quality of the writing and the great people I get to work with.
— Julie Bowen
A great many people have come up to me and asked how I manage to get so much work done and still keep looking so dissipated.
— Robert Benchley
Four great adventures; read, learn, write and travel.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
She was the reason I started to write but her beauty is kept me writing.
— Brandon Villasenor
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 many people now reading and writing would be better employed keeping rabbits.
— Edith Sitwell
My father was a frustrated writer. I think he wanted to write the great American novel.
— Anne Waldman
When you're writing for a TV show, what's great is that you always know what actor you're writing to.
— Michael Brandt
It's great to be here.
— A.D. Posey
If I'm writing something and I'm not feeling mischievous, then I know it's not going to be great.
— Elizabeth Meriwether
Gertrude Stein said, "I write for myself and strangers." I would say I write for myself, strangers and the great dead.
— Edward Hirsch
Sondheim is my god; I love the man. I learned a great deal about writing from his work, his lyrics, and his structure.
— Richard LaGravenese
Great books make a great life.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
I'm not writing great literature. I'm writing commercial fiction for people to enjoy the stories and to like the characters.
— Kathy Reichs
Every great novel begins with a single word. One word, followed by another and another and another. Sentences forming paths to that dream.
— Pamela Morris
When I'm in heavy-duty writing mode, there's something great about reading a series. Soothing, but not distracting too much.
— Lauren Willig
There is no great writing, only great rewriting.
— Louis D. Brandeis
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
Writing has to have a great deal of certainty and self-assurance, but it's not arrogant.
— Jeanette Winterson
It's just lovely to be involved in a movie that does go back to the basics - characters and great writing.
— Clive Owen
I love great writing. I like interesting characters. I like to work with people who push me to be better, to elevate my game.
— Julie Ann Emery
Writing is something that's great because you get to write every thought that's on your mind; you take your time.
— Kendra Wilkinson
Great places, great memories.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Allegories drawn to great length will always break.
— Samuel Johnson
My favorite piece of technical writing: Assembly of Japanese bicycle require great peace of mind.
— Robert M. Pirsig
If a story is not about the hearer, he will not listen. And here I make a rule - a great and interesting story is about everyone or it will not last.
— John Steinbeck
Being an editor has been a source of great satisfaction, but writing is the thing I truly love.
— Bill Keller
There's always pressure, a great deal of pressure, when writing, since my first books were so successful.
— Nicholas Sparks
Some writing and production projects will be a great way to spend my elderly rock years.
— Geddy Lee
It's a great euphoria when you reach that writing zone.
— Paul T. Scheuring
I've got my own studio, so I sit in my studio writing and if I get a great take, that's the take.
— Kid Rock
The great thing about revision is that it's your opportunity to fake being brilliant.
— Will Shetterly
I plan less and less. It's a great benefit of writing lots, that you get good at holding long narratives in your head like a virtual space.
— Jonathan Lethem
I get a great high from writing.
— Walter Hill
Great content inspires action.
— Dane Brookes
The name of a great writer is usually bigger than the title of his book. Both literally and figuratively.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
If certain Critics were as clearsighted as they are malignant, how great would be the benefit to be derived from their writings!
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
Writing a novel is like going a great distance to take a small shit.
— Harlan Ellison
Here, beside this great black surface that is my desk, I feel as though I am on a desert island.
— Etty Hillesum
There is a mystery in all great writing and that mystery does not dissect out. It continues and is always valid.
— Ernest Hemingway,
Realism isn't something most people associate with the fantasy genre, yet it's an essential element of great fantasy writing.
— Lynn Flewelling
Writing has become my great joy - I simply love it.
— Dawn French
Be a great writer when you write your life's song.
— Debasish Mridha
The faults of great authors are generally excellences carried to an excess.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
I am always writing a potpourri of music. I want to give the world escapism through the wonder of great music and to reach the masses.
— Michael Jackson
I'm not a great writer. I'm a great rewriter.
— Paddy Chayefsky
Great commanders write their actions with simplicity; because they receive more glory from facts than from words.
— Baron De Montesquieu
Literature has done great work for feminism - writing and reading are a practice of empathy - and great literature will continue to do so.
— Julianna Baggott
The research. It is always the best part of writing. And, of course, it is the great excuse to travel.
— Michael Scott
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
As a writer, I always tend to take the liberty and the great artistic luxury of a composite form of writing.
— Dwight Yoakam
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
My early life has given me a great deal to draw on, certainly - but would I have swapped a happy childhood for the writing? Yes.
— Bruce Robinson
Use all this life to make yourself a great writer, thoughtful and kind, slowly, surely over the years.
— T.K. Naliaka
Names that tell stories have been worth millions of dollars. So a great deal of research often proceeds the selection of a name
— Claude C. Hopkins
A great performance like Lady Macbeth may be forgotten. Writing endures.
— Susan Strasberg
There is a great deal that either has to be given up or be taken away from you if you are going to succeed in writing a body of work.
— Susan Sontag
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
It doesn't take five novels to become a great writer ... it takes one novel rewritten five different times.
— B. Chancellor Burgweger
Letters are the real curse of my existence. I hate to write them: I have to. If I don't, there they are - the great guilty gates barring my way.
— Katherine Mansfield
Being a great writer is not the same as writing great.
— John Updike
I'd rather write great songs because the word "commercial" is so subjective
— Beth Nielsen Chapman
All great literature is one of two stories; a man goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town.
— Leo Tolstoy
Writing a great script - not just a good one, but a great one - is almost an impossible task.
— Michael Arndt
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
A great story can change the world.
— Stewart Stafford
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
The truth is, writing is this: hard and boring and occasionally great but usually not.
— Amy Poehler
Smiles from girls like you are what started the Trojan War.
— Amanda Lance
