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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

if you want to be a great writer, you have to be a greed reader. — Imelda Akmal

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

A great writer is a great writer ... Tolstoy was not a woman, but 'Anna Karenina' is still a pretty good book. — Phil Klay

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

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

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

Songwriting is something I really need to work on. I don't have very many songs but I really love it. I would love to be a great song writer some day. — Norah Jones

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

You have to be in your middle thirties before you have anything worth saying. — Peter Bowen

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

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

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

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

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

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

Milos Forman is a great director, Jim Brooks is a wonderful writer and director. — Twyla Tharp

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

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 was never a quick writer, but composed with great care and efforts. — Joseph Haydn

A great writer is, so to speak, a secret government in his country — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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