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.

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

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

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

I'm not a great writer.

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.

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

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

Great writers create; writers of smaller gifts copy

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.