Great Writers famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Good writers borrow from other writers. Great writers steal from them outright.
-- Aaron Sorkin -
I don't consider myself a great writer, but I would like to think that I can at least proof- read.
-- Aimee Mann -
We are great writers on the same dreadful typewriter
-- Allen Ginsberg -
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 -
Great writers leave us not just their works, but a way of looking at things.
-- Elizabeth Janeway -
The great writers just kept bringing them out. They didn't care if they repeated themselves.
-- Irwin Shaw -
Great writers say things that are so beautiful, the very act of repeating them makes life itself more beautiful.
-- Joe Queenan -
Listen to the Bee Gees and you can learn to be a great writer.
-- Kara DioGuardi -
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 -
I'm not a great writer. I'm a great rewriter.
-- Paddy Chayefsky -
There are damn few great writers and I'm not one of them. While I could afford to I played with words. When I could no longer afford that I wrote for money.
-- Rex Stout -
Lizzy Weiss is such a great writer, and she really writes for the performances.
-- Vanessa Marano -
It's really hard to write a screenplay, it's nauseating. All those great writers that tried to write screenplays, they couldn't do it, most of them - John Faulkner, whoever, Aldous Huxley.
-- Hampton Fancher -
Everyone has access to a pen and paper, but to be a great writer is difficult.
-- Pamela Yates
