Quotes of: Great-writer Keyword

I'm not a very good writer, but I'm an excellent rewriter.

James A. Michener

I've been a professional writer for 20 years, and there are contours in that time, crescents and troughs.

Graham Joyce

You become a better writer by writing. You become a better travel writer by writing about travel.

Tim Cahill

I'm not a science fiction writer, I'm a physicist.

Michio Kaku

Writers are creatures of habit, as are humans, but writers aren’t necessarily human, are they?

Alyssa Hubbard

I'm an aspiring writer.' I hate that phrase. You're either a writer or you're not.

Love

The most difficult thing about living as a writer is precisely 'having to write.' Pretending to be a writer is easy. Living freely, reading many books, going on frequent trips, cultivating minor eccentricities... but genuinely being a writer is diffi...

Kim Young-ha

Here in New York, we're media obsessed. Writers write about writers who write about writers and reporters and freelancers, and it's just a festival of information. We're all analyzing and examining and predicting, and I can't imagine that it's like t...

Lauren Weisberger

Visual and performing artists produce art that lives in the present world. The art of the writer exists in another dimension. Through strings of words and phrases writers inspire their readers to imagine, to conjure images, to suspend disbelief, to e...

Mindie Burgoyne

Certainly, historically, there has been more attention given in the international media to Indian English-language writers than to Pakistani English-language writers. But that, in my opinion, was justified by the sheer number of excellent writers com...

Mohsin Hamid

One of the advantages of having gone to Penn State was having had a scholar for a mentor - Philip Young. Also, a professional writer named Philip Klass taught there. He was a science fiction writer whose pseudonym was William Tenn. As a professional ...

David Morrell

I was thinking: to write and being a writer are two kind of diferrences things. To write is a please. Being a writer is about taking it as a job, as a consequency, as a responsibility. And being a writer is about ENDLESSLY passion. If you don’t lik...

Love

If you look at most women's writing, women writers will describe women differently from the way male writers describe women. The details that go into a woman writer's description of a female character are, perhaps, a little more judgmental. They're l...

Lorrie Moore

The living has a great hope, we have life to bounce back from any difficulty. The dead had no hope.

Think Great: Be Great: Beautiful Quotes

My dad has done a bit of research on our family tree, and we can trace it quite far back. My dad believes he has traced us back to being a great-great-great-great-great-great cousin of Wellington.

Tom Bennett

A great artist is a great man in a great child.

Victor Hugo

Trust the tale, not the teller.

Eminent Outlaws: The Gay Writers Who Changed America

A writer will always be a writer. It's not a choice, it's a destiny.

The Authorship Program

A writer fails, not when a reader is not moved; but when, as a reader, the writer is not moved.

Signs of War

A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit.

Richard Bach

Ilike ideas writers have that I might not have written. Writers are there for a reason... to write for me.

Tim Roth