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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
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
Edgar Allan Poe is considered the great writer of horror stories, perhaps the greatest - I will say the greatest
— William Friedkin
Every great or even every very good writer makes the world over according to his own specifications.
— Raymond Carver
Beside every great writer is a great listener.
— Nanette L. Avery
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
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
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
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
There are no "great" subjects for the creative writer; there are only the singular details of a single human life.
— Richard Selzer
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
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
What a great thing! To be a writer! Words are something you can carry in your head. You can really 'travel light.'
— Robert Creeley
To be a great actor you just need to comprehend, so that's why I became a writer.
— Johnathon Schaech
I read Freud because I find him an excellent writer ... a writer of police thrillers that can be followed with great passion.
— Italo Calvino
I mean, the problem is, I think I'm a great writer.
— Aaron Eckhart
I think writing is such a great talent, and if I was better, I would love to be a writer.
— Shiloh Fernandez
All you have to do is put one word after another, and remember how great it feels to be a writer.
— Stephanie Lennox
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
To be a great writer you must be fearless with your words.
— Karmel Graham
Lost in a book is a great place to be found.
— Shannon Taylor Hodnett
A great writer weaves words like a painter mixes colors.
— James D. Maxon
![To Be A Great Writer Quotes By William S. Burroughs: He [Samuel Beckett] is great, a very great](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/to-be-a-great-writer-quotes-by-william-s-burroughs-1632674.jpg "To Be 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
Perhaps the greatest illusion a writer ever creates is that his work is achieved without great effort or sacrifice.
— David Alejandro Fearnhead
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
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
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 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
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
Be a great writer when you write your life's song.
— Debasish Mridha
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
Being a great writer is not the same as writing great.
— John Updike
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
A cheap writer has an expensive thoughts.
— J. Limbu
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
Hay he's a great writer and i like him a lot
— Jeff Kinney
Ernest Hemingway did a great deal toward making the writer an acceptable public figure; obviously, he was no sissy.
— Irwin Shaw
I don't consider myself a great writer, but I would like to think that I can at least proof- read.
— Aimee Mann
As before, there is a great silence, with no end in sight. The writer surrenders, listening.
— Jayne Anne Phillips
The name of a great writer is usually bigger than the title of his book. Both literally and figuratively.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Thinking is a great joy for a good writer and a great torture for the bad one!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
It doesn't take five novels to become a great writer ... it takes one novel rewritten five different times.
— B. Chancellor Burgweger
A great writer is, so to speak, a secret government in his country
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
