Great Writers Quotes

Good writers borrow from other writers. Great writers steal from them outright.

Listen to the Bee Gees and you can learn to be a great writer.

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

Jesse Joyce is a great writer.

I'm not a great writer. I'm a great rewriter.

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

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

A great writer is nothing less than a martyr who does not die.

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

I'm not a great writer.

There are damn few great writers and I'm not one of them. While I could afford to I played with words. When I could no longer afford that I wrote for money.

We are great writers on the same dreadful typewriter

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

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

Great writers create; writers of smaller gifts copy

Lizzy Weiss is such a great writer, and she really writes for the performances.

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

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

All great writers are schizophrenics, you know what I'm saying? 'Cause they switch up. They become the person when they write.

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.

hay he's a great writer and i like him a lot

It's really hard to write a screenplay, it's nauseating. All those great writers that tried to write screenplays, they couldn't do it, most of them - John Faulkner, whoever, Aldous Huxley.

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

He was so good at everything he did. You can't call Ronnie Barker a comedian. He was an actor, and a great writer.

For a country to have a great writer is to have another government.