Best 28 quotes in «great writers quotes» category

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

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

I think it's probably better to make a region your own, and then maybe you can go somewhere else, but a lot of great writers have stuck to one region.

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

I am hoping that I can be known as a great writer and actor some day, rather than a sex symbol.

Intellectuals of [Albert] Camus' age who had previously disliked him now appreciate him. And at that point we come back to literature, and it's agreed that he was always a great writer.

I was intoxicated by the romantic poetry of our great writers. I arranged the world according to my private use, looking at it through the poems I had devoured.

Jesse Joyce is a great writer.

It is fascinating to me that when the lists of the great writers are trotted out year after year, you often find lists without a single woman mentioned.

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

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.

You fail only if you stop writing.

Mediocre writers borrow; great writers steal.

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

We are great writers on the same dreadful typewriter

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

The great writer finds style as the mystic finds God, in his own soul.

Writing is sharing. You share what you have. Great writers have more to share

Great gurus are not great writers, but great writers are great gurus!

Great writers speak with their works not with their mouths!

The difference between a fairly interesting writer and a fascinating writer is that the fascinating writer has a better nose for what genuinely excites him, he is hotter on the trail, he has a better instinct for what is truly alive in him. The worse writer may seem to be more sensible in many ways, but he is less sensible in this vital matter: he cannot distinguish what is full of life from what is only half full or empty of it. And so his writing is less alive, and as a writer he is less alive, and in writing, as in everything else, nothing matters but life.

We were not meant to suffer so much and learn nothing.

David O. Russell is probably my favorite filmmaker. He's not only a great director, but he's also a great writer.

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

You become a great writer by writing lots and lots of stories, not by rewriting the same story over and over again.

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

Each writer is born with a repertory company in his head.

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