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Great Writers Quotes

1.
Good writers borrow from other writers. Great writers steal from them outright.
Aaron Sorkin

Authors on Great Writers Quotes: LL Cool J Bruce Forsyth Karrine Steffans Aaron Sorkin Tucker Max Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Irwin Shaw Elizabeth Janeway Rex Stout Allen Ginsberg Jeff Kinney Ernest Hemingway Susan Sontag Paddy Chayefsky W. Somerset Maugham Joe Queenan Dave Attell Kara DioGuardi E. L. James William Friedkin Honore de Balzac Aimee Mann Hampton Fancher Pamela Yates Vanessa Marano
2.
Listen to the Bee Gees and you can learn to be a great writer.
Kara DioGuardi

3.
Jesse Joyce is a great writer.
Dave Attell

4.
Great writers say things that are so beautiful, the very act of repeating them makes life itself more beautiful.
Joe Queenan

5.
The great writers just kept bringing them out. They didn't care if they repeated themselves.
Irwin Shaw

6.
I'm not a great writer. I'm a great rewriter.
Paddy Chayefsky

7.
Most of my success, I feel, comes from being a good editor as opposed to a great writer.
Tucker Max

8.
I don't consider myself a great writer, but I would like to think that I can at least proof- read.
Aimee Mann

9.
A great writer is nothing less than a martyr who does not die.
Honore de Balzac

10.
I'm not a great writer.
E. L. James

11.
We are great writers on the same dreadful typewriter
Allen Ginsberg

12.
In order to be a great writer a person must have a built-in, shockproof crap detector.
Ernest Hemingway

13.
He was so good at everything he did. You can't call Ronnie Barker a comedian. He was an actor, and a great writer.
Bruce Forsyth

14.
All great writers are schizophrenics, you know what I'm saying? 'Cause they switch up. They become the person when they write.
LL Cool J

15.
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

16.
For a country to have a great writer is to have another government.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

17.
Great writers leave us not just their works, but a way of looking at things.
Elizabeth Janeway

18.
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.
Rex Stout

19.
hay he's a great writer and i like him a lot
Jeff Kinney

20.
A great writer has all 4 - but you can still be a good writer with only 1 and 2.
Susan Sontag

21.
Great writers create; writers of smaller gifts copy
W. Somerset Maugham

22.
Edgar Allan Poe is considered the great writer of horror stories, perhaps the greatest - I will say the greatest
William Friedkin

23.
Everyone has access to a pen and paper, but to be a great writer is difficult.
Pamela Yates

24.
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.
Hampton Fancher

25.
Lizzy Weiss is such a great writer, and she really writes for the performances.
Vanessa Marano