Quotes of: Great-writer Keyword

Every writer is a writer of the generation before.

Wilfrid Sheed

Some of the greatest writers in our industry can't get work.

Kent McCord

You possess great strength, great spirit and great soul.

Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind

Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness - great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy.

Jim Rohn

Great is a great one whose great ones are great

Building the Pyramid

A writer who can’t use his firsthand experience must turn to secondhand experience, which can lead to thirdhand clichés.

Eminent Outlaws: The Gay Writers Who Changed America

Subtlety is the mark of confidence and is thus by far the hardest thing for a writer to achieve.

The First Five Pages: A Writer's Guide To Staying Out of the Rejection Pile

You need to establish a degree of privacy and solitude in order to write

From Inspiration to Publication: How to Succeed as a Children's Writer: Advice from 15 Award Winning Writers

I think it's important to remember where I began. I know that when I talk to other writers, say, writers from the South or writers from abroad, it's where they begin as children that is important to them.

Patricia MacLachlan

It looks like the writer is telling you a story. What the writer is actually doing, however, is using words to evoke a series of micromemories from your own experience that inmix, join, and connect in your mind in an order the writer controls, so tha...

Samuel R. Delany

I am suspicious of writers who go looking for issues to address. Writers are neither preachers nor journalists. Journalists know much more than most writers about what's going on in the world. And if you want to change things, you do journalism.

A. S. Byatt

I'm a writer. In Latin America, they say I'm a Latin-American writer because I also write in Spanish and my books are translated, but I am an American citizen and my books are published here, so I'm also an American writer.

Isabel Allende

There is no higher authority.

Doctor Who: The Writer's Tale

I just have a thing for writers. Maybe it because I'm just so not a writer.

Patricia Clarkson

Today, writers want to impress other writers.

Paulo Coelho

I'm a struggling writer, I'm struggling to convince people I'm a writer.

Tom Conrad

Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.

T. S. Eliot

Whether you're a writer of stories or a writer of patents, you're an inventor.

Linda A. Tancs

If technique is of no interest to a writer, I doubt that the writer is an artist.

Marianne Moore

I'm not a very good writer. I'm working at it.

Henry Rollins

If writers were good businessmen, they'd have too much sense to be writers.

Irvin S. Cobb