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I'm not a great writer. -- E. L. James
Sean's a great, great writer. -- Robin Wright
You become a great writer by writing. -- Peter Thiel
I am, really, a great writer; my only difficulty is in finding great readers. -- Frank Harris
Listen to the Bee Gees and you can learn to be a great writer. -- Kara DioGuardi
My dad is a great writer. Naturally talented, naturally charming. He embodies that back-in-the-day cool. -- Drake
Most of my success, I feel, comes from being a good editor as opposed to a great writer. -- Tucker Max
David O. Russell is probably my favorite filmmaker. He's not only a great director, but he's also a great writer. -- Adam McKay
I am hoping that I can be known as a great writer and actor some day, rather than a sex symbol. -- Steven Seagal
I wish I was a great writer or a great journalist or a great scientist or a great artist; I'm not. -- Nicolas Berggruen
A great writer is a great writer... Tolstoy was not a woman, but 'Anna Karenina' is still a pretty good book. -- Phil Klay
It is my desire to be a great writer. I know that I still have a mountain to climb to achieve that. -- Guy Johnson
I know I'm not a great writer. I'm an extremely gifted oral communicator, but when it comes to writing, I'm just a beginner. -- Marianne Williamson
In America, the race goes to the loud, the solemn, the hustler. If you think you're a great writer, you must say that you are. -- Gore Vidal
It's hard to read good fiction when I am writing, because if it is really good I catch myself sort of inadvertently imitating a great writer. -- John Grisham
For a country to have a great writer is like having a second government. That is why no regime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones. -- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
If I'd learned nothing else, it was this: If you want to be a great writer, be a man. If you can't be a man, write like one. -- Julianna Baggott
The creations of a great writer are little more than the moods and passions of his own heart, given surnames and Christian names, and sent to walk the earth. -- William Butler Yeats
My family is involved and my wife Brenda is a great, great writer. She helps me with the writing of everything and also sings with me. I owe a lot to Brenda. -- Rick Derringer
He invented this idea of telling the life story of a great writer through becoming his characters and becoming him. It was such a pleasure and I thought we must find another writer. -- Simon Callow
As a songwriter, I was influenced by David Bowie - a great writer. A class above everybody in so many ways. Lennon and McCartney, of course. Class stuff. David Cousins was my favorite lyricist. -- Rick Wakeman
A great writer creates a world of his own and his readers are proud to live in it. A lesser writer may entice them in for a moment, but soon he will watch them filing out. -- Cyril Connolly
My guiltiest pleasure is Harry Stephen Keeler. He may have been the greatest bad writer America has ever produced. Or perhaps the worst great writer. I do not know. There are few faults you can accuse him of that he is not guilty of. But I love him. -- Neil Gaiman
My dad was an editor and a writer, and that's really where I would have liked to have gone. But the genetic link was not intact there, so I wound up going into business. But I love to write, still. I'm not a great writer, but I enjoy it. -- Anne M. Mulcahy
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, and learn a lot about writing by reading him. -- Greil Marcus
I believe we all have the capacity to be masters of many things, and there's nothing that we can't do. You can be a great actor and also be a great writer. There's so many things that all of us have the capacity to do. But somehow, life tries to convince us that we'd be lucky to do even one thing well, and I disagree. -- Hill Harper
Jesse Joyce is a great writer. -- Dave Attell
I'm not a great writer. I'm a great rewriter. -- Paddy Chayefsky
hay he's a great writer and i like him a lot -- Jeff Kinney
I mean, the problem is, I think I'm a great writer. -- Aaron Eckhart
The great writer evokes the words that buried within hearts of readers. -- Toba Beta
A great writer is, so to speak, a secret government in his country -- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
For a country to have a great writer is to have another government. -- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
I was never a quick writer, but composed with great care and efforts. -- Joseph Haydn
A great writer is nothing less than a martyr who does not die. -- Honore de Balzac
Milos Forman is a great director, Jim Brooks is a wonderful writer and director. -- Twyla Tharp
Today I am an unemployed writer living as a recluse in the great Northwoods. -- Daniel J. Rice
For me, fiction's great gift - to writer and reader, alike - is freedom. -- Norman Lock
The great writer finds style as the mystic finds God, in his own soul. -- Havelock Ellis
Lizzy Weiss is such a great writer, and she really writes for the performances. -- Vanessa Marano
Stephen King. Now I'm not crazy about him, but he's a great a writer. -- Mickey Spillane
It is true that, with TV, a writer gets a great deal more respect. -- Jon Spaihts
The great thing about being a writer is that you are always recreating yourself. -- Martin Cruz Smith
I wasn't that great a chef, and I don't think I'm that great a writer. -- Anthony Bourdain
As a writer, all you want to do is write for great actors. That's all. -- Amy Sherman-Palladino
A great writer reveals the truth even when he or she does not wish to. -- Tom Bissell
What's the use of being a writer if you can't irritate a great many people? -- Norman Mailer
When you're a writer, you're always looking for conflict. It's conflict that drives great stories. -- William Kent Krueger
My father was a frustrated writer. I think he wanted to write the great American novel. -- Anne Waldman
In order to be a great writer a person must have a built-in, shockproof crap detector. -- Ernest Hemingway
Being a writer is great, and being a parent is great, and I hate Marching Band. -- MaryJanice Davidson
Everyone has access to a pen and paper, but to be a great writer is difficult. -- Pamela Yates
As before, there is a great silence, with no end in sight. The writer surrenders, listening. -- Jayne Anne Phillips
I think Jesse Eisenberg is such a great writer. He was a great director and really tough. -- Parker Posey
Every great writer is a writer of history, let him treat on almost any subject he may. -- Walter Savage Landor
Every great or even every very good writer makes the world over according to his own specifications. -- Raymond Carver
Thinking is a great joy for a good writer and a great torture for the bad one! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
You cannot be a great writer in a shop where words are sold in tens and twenties. -- Rick Aster
To be a great actor you just need to comprehend, so that's why I became a writer. -- Johnathon Schaech
I'm not a great joke writer, which is odd for a comic to say, but I'm not. -- Lewis Black
A great writer has all 4 - but you can still be a good writer with only 1 and 2. -- Susan Sontag
You have to give up a great deal of life, your personal life, to be a writer. -- Doris Lessing
Being a good observer is a great tool to have as a writer, just taking the world in. -- Lauren Conrad
Don't be discouraged if you think you're not a great writer because terrible writers are successful in Hollywood -- David Seltzer
The name of a great writer is usually bigger than the title of his book. Both literally and figuratively. -- Mokokoma Mokhonoana
It's not a college degree that makes a writer. The great thing is to have a story to tell. -- Polly Adler
Ernest Hemingway did a great deal toward making the writer an acceptable public figure; obviously, he was no sissy. -- Irwin Shaw
I don't consider myself a great writer, but I would like to think that I can at least proof- read. -- Aimee Mann
To be a good editor or a good writer, I think you really need to be a great reader first. -- Karen Thompson Walker
Being a writer in Hollywood is like going to Hitler's Eagle Nest with a great idea for a bar mitzvah. -- David Mamet
Detroit, my 'great' subject, made me the person I am, consequently the writer I am - for better or worse. -- Joyce Carol Oates
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Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure. Emotion is easily transferred from the writer to the reader. -- Joseph Joubert
Edgar Allan Poe is considered the great writer of horror stories, perhaps the greatest - I will say the greatest -- William Friedkin
I think writing is such a great talent, and if I was better, I would love to be a writer. -- Shiloh Fernandez
Genre-spanning is the effort to make the live show interesting. It's also a great way to challenge yourself as a writer. -- Jason Mraz
When you're reading some of the great plays, when you do what I call "taking up with a writer," something happens. -- Al Pacino
That's the great thing about being a writer. You dream up amazing questions... and then dream up even more amazing answers. -- Richelle Mead
Indeed, the great paradox of the writer's life is how much time he spends alone trying to connect with other people. -- Betsy Lerner
I have thought for many years that the audience any creative writer imagines has a great effect on what gets written. -- Pattiann Rogers
I have so many great things going on in my life that I don't need to pay attention to some writer. -- Paris Hilton
As a writer, I always tend to take the liberty and the great artistic luxury of a composite form of writing. -- Dwight Yoakam
All you have to do is put one word after another, and remember how great it feels to be a writer. -- Stephanie Lennox
I read Freud because I find him an excellent writer... a writer of police thrillers that can be followed with great passion. -- Italo Calvino
I think the writer makes a good story good or a good story bad. The writer has a great deal of responsibility. -- Tom Robinson
It's always great when you want scientific fact to get a really good science fiction writer to talk to you about it. -- Robin Williams
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
A great writer picks up on those things that matter. Itâ??s almost like their radar is attuned to the most significant moments. -- Alain de Botton
I hope and assume that every good comedy writer, no matter the age, has a moment where they discover how great Cheers is. -- Amy Poehler
it is through the ghost [writer] that the great gift of knowledge which the inarticulate have for the world can be made available. -- Elizabeth Janeway
What a great thing! To be a writer! Words are something you can carry in your head. You can really 'travel light.' -- Robert Creeley
The great thing about being a writer is that you have a long, perhaps frighteningly long time in which to do your work. -- Julia Leigh
When I'm out and about, I'll text or email myself from my phone. A smart phone is a great tool for a writer. -- Steven Hall
I think the internet is a great marketing tool--but marketing is not my job. I'm a writer. My job is to write novels. -- Bentley Little
When I hear of the destruction of a species, I feel just as if all the works of some great writer have perished. -- Theodore Roosevelt
I was brought up in the great tradition of the late nineteenth century: that a writer never complains, never explains and never disdains. -- James A. Michener
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
I'm pleased to have outsold great writers. But I'm not insane - I realize I am a writer people buy to take on vacation. -- Maeve Binchy
Disney was not a good animator, he didn't draw well at all, but he was always a great idea man, and a good writer. -- Chuck Jones
The great liberty of the fictional writer is to let the imagination out of the traces and see it gallop off over the horizon. -- Will Self
It is splendid to be a great writer, to put men into the frying pan of your words and make them pop like chestnuts. -- Gustave Flaubert
I'm not a very creative person, you know? I'm not really an art person. I'm not a great reader or writer or artist or musician. -- Tom Brady
To be of mixed blood is a great gift for a writer. I have one foot on tribal lands and one foot in middle-class life. -- Louise Erdrich
Every great and original writer, in proportion as he is great and original, must himself create the taste by which he is to be relished. -- William Wordsworth
I've known Shawn for several years. And he's just an amazing talent. He's a great writer, a marvelous, marvelous guitar player, and plays really good fiddle. -- Guy Clark
But Racine's extraordinary powers as a writer become still more obvious when we consider that besides being a great poet he is also a great psychologist. -- Lytton Strachey
I see this quality [ real interest and joy ] in the work of [Pavel] Chekhov, of course, and [Alexei] Tolstoy and really just about any great writer. -- George Saunders
He [Samuel Beckett] is great, a very great writer. Any modern writer is bound to be influenced by [James] Joyce. Of course, by Beckett as well. -- William S. Burroughs
That's what ever great writer, I believe, has done over the course of time - is they've figured out new ways of telling the same stories. -- James Frey
If you're going to be a writer you have to be one of the great ones... After all, there are better ways to starve to death. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The blog is certainly another tool for writers out there to break their way in. But being a blogger does not make you a great writer. -- Julie Powell
Words mean more than we mean to express when we use them: so a whole book ought to mean a great deal more than the writer meant. -- Lewis Carroll
Garrison Keillor read several of my poems on 'The Writer's Almanac' and I've heard from listeners nationally and internationally. That's one of the great gifts of email. -- Ellen Bass
A writer writes knowing that nothing else will elicit the same kind of satisfaction and personal triumph as molding the written word into a reader's great experience. -- Richelle E. Goodrich
I love being a writer. I have a great life. I get up in the morning and pad around in my dressing gown and listen to Radio 4. -- John Niven
It is the little writer rather than the great writer who seems never to quote, and the reason is that he is never really doing anything else. -- Havelock Ellis
To be a writer is to throw away a great deal, not to be satisfied, to type again, and then again and once more, and over and over. -- John Hersey
The poet or the story-teller who cannot give the reader a little ghostly pleasure at times never can be either a really great writer or a great thinker. -- Lafcadio Hearn
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
As I have encountered difficult moments in my own life, I have been privileged to learn from the great men I have come to know as a writer. -- Candice Millard

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