1.
Good writers borrow from other writers. Great writers steal from them outright.
Aaron Sorkin
2.
Listen to the Bee Gees and you can learn to be a great writer.
Kara DioGuardi
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
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
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
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
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