Quotes of: Great-writer Keyword

We can afford to exercise the self-restraint of a really great nation which realizes its own strength and scorns to misuse it.

Woodrow Wilson

Franz Klammer was my great idol in my younger years.

Hermann Maier

You are permitted in time of great danger to walk with the devil until you have crossed the bridge.

Bulgarian

You are permitted in times of great danger to walk with the devil until you have crossed the bridge.

Bulgarian

When people only talk about things they understand then a great silence will descend upon the world.

Chinese

Humor to a man is like a feather pillow. It is filled with what is easy to get but gives great comfort.

Irish

People will in a great degree, and not without reason, form their opinion of you by that they have of your friends, as, says the

Spanish

Take hold lightly; let go lightly. This is one of the great secrets of felicity in love.

Spanish

People visit exposed and vulnerable; writers live there

Eve of Awakening

He was a writer and words were his weapons.

Bloodsucking Fiends

You sure about this writer thing son?

Bloodsucking Fiends

Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen.

Willa Cather

It could be argued that every age gets the comfort savagery writer it deserves.

Will Self

A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.

Gertrude Stein

The writer interweaves a story with his own doubts, questions, and values. That is art.

Naguib Mahfouz

... a writer concocts a different story for every reader.

The Afterword: A Novel

The truth is that most writers are needy.

On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

Writers are the custodians of memory...

On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction

The best liars lie with their eyes rather than with their words. This might put writers at a disadvantage.

Joanna Scott

Writers are also sort of like vultures, but with fewer ethics.

Libba Bray

Writers mean more than they say and say more than they mean.

Mason Cooley