Quotes of: Great-writer Keyword

I have great respect for children. And I have great respect for their ability as writers.

Patricia MacLachlan

Writers are great lovers. They fall in love with other writers. That's how they learn to write. They take on a writer, read everything by him or her, read it over again until they understand how the writer moves, pauses, and sees. That's what being a...

Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within

The great writers are great as they have big workshop of imagination.

Kishore Bansal

Great writers create; writers of smaller gifts copy

W. Somerset Maugham

Farber had a huge effect on me as a writer. I don't mean I write like him. Farber is, first of all, a great stylist, a great writer. Anyone can read Manny Farber's film criticism, whether that person is a novelist, a poet, another critic, a historian...

Greil Marcus

I always felt that it was easier to take a funny person and teach them to write television than to take somebody who was a television writer and make them funny. And I discovered a lot of great writers that went on to do a lot of great shows like 'Se...

Roseanne Barr

I wasn't that great a chef, and I don't think I'm that great a writer.

Anthony Bourdain

It's no use imagining that bringing great writers together inevitably precipitates great conversation.

Edward St Aubyn

I've been so lucky to work with some great, great writers: Tony Kushner and Yasmina Reza.

Marcia Gay Harden

One of the things you get to do as a writer is that you get to learn new stuff all the time, and I hope that I'm a better writer when I'm 70 than I was when I was 30. That's one of the great things about a literary career.

Justin Cronin

Maybe just as many women writers as male writers could be billed as the next great American writer by their publisher. Maybe book criticism sections could review an equal amount of female and male writers. Maybe Oprah could start putting some books b...

Jami Attenberg

I read Freud because I find him an excellent writer... a writer of police thrillers that can be followed with great passion.

Italo Calvino

Why is contemporary China short of works that speak directly? Because we writers cannot speak directly, or rather we can only speak in an indirect way. Why does contemporary China lack good works that critique our current situation? Because our curre...

Life

Why does the writer write? The writer writes to serve — hopelessly he writes in the hope that he might serve — not himself and not others, but that great cold elemental grace which knows us. A writer I very much admire is Don DeLillo. At an award...

Joy Williams

I feel like I'm a secondary artist, a kind of a conduit for the writer, and if it's a good writer, then I have a great road map.

Mamie Gummer

I am, really, a great writer; my only difficulty is in finding great readers.

Frank Harris

The great thing about 'Justified' is that the writers will craft a scene, but if the actors come up with a great idea, they're 100% for it.

Neal McDonough

For me, Fitzgerald was one of the great American writers of the last century; a wordsmith, a storyteller, a perfectionist.

Robert Littell

I think writing is such a great talent, and if I was better, I would love to be a writer.

Shiloh Fernandez

When I was a boy, I would read those postcards and know exactly why my father was doing what he was doing: he was taking a stab at greatness, that is, if greatness is simply another word for doing something different from what you were already doing-...

An Arsonist's Guide To Writers' Homes In New England

The great thing about being a writer is that you are always recreating yourself.

Martin Cruz Smith