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Great Writer Quotes

A great writer has a high respect for values. His essential function is to raise life to the dignity of thought, and this he does by giving it a shape Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

I’m not on the run from anything and I’m not at all clear about what I’m running towards. But as some great writer put it, I want to be certain that when I arrive at death, I’m totally exhausted Picture Quote #1

Great orators who are not also great writers become very indistinct shadows to the generations following them. The spell vanishes with the voice Picture Quote #1

Sometimes you read a passage by a great writer, and you know what he says and how he says it will always be, for you, the only possible way it could be. Less often a painter will describe an event in a way that fits into your interpretation of that event so perfectly that it becomes the event itself Picture Quote #1

Great writers say things that are so beautiful, the very act of repeating them makes life itself more beautiful Picture Quote #1

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I had no aspirations to become a landscape photographer at all. In fact it was portraiture that was my beginning, I suppose. I have always been a very keen walker, though, and I often took a camera with me on my walks. But I was, and still am, an avid reader and so when I first started I chose to photograph many of the great writers in this country to try and earn a living Picture Quote #1

Great writers are not those who tell us we shouldn’t play with fire, but those who make our fingers burn Picture Quote #1

A creative writing program is only as good as its teachers, and I was fortunate in having two great writers as mentors Picture Quote #1

It’s no use imagining that bringing great writers together inevitably precipitates great conversation Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

Talking to all those great writers and artists for the magazine was a form of graduate school for me Picture Quote #1

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Great writers zealously learn the craft of their profession so they can release the power and the depth of their imagination and experience Picture Quote #1

When I hear of the destruction of a species, I feel just as if all the works of some great writer have perished Picture Quote #1

Stallone is a great writer. He wrote one of the best screenplays ever written. Rocky. It is one of the biggest classics of all time. I think in the past, he was shying away from writing his own stuff, because there is a lot of pressure when you star in something that you write Picture Quote #1

It is not unusual to hate great writers before we learn to love them. Because they have created something that did not yet exist, they must also create their audience. Sometimes the audience is not yet ready. Sometimes it has yet to be born Picture Quote #1

I was intoxicated by the romantic poetry of our great writers. I arranged the world according to my private use, looking at it through the poems I had devoured Picture Quote #1

I wish I was a great writer or a great journalist or a great scientist or a great artist; I’m not Picture Quote #1

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I have never pretended to be a great writer. I am totally immodest about being a great reporter and a good news writer. I write fast and I write accurately, nearly as accurately as anybody can be, and that’s my skill Picture Quote #1

Great writers know what to cut out. It’s the same in life. Clear ambitions. Clear relationships. This is the stuff of good story Picture Quote #1

As actors, we were fighting that tooth and nail because of fear, because language is a crutch and dialogue is a crutch, and it’s so easy to just have a great writer write you a line Picture Quote #1

Language pedants hew to an oral tradition of shibboleths that have no basis in logic or style, that have been defied by great writers for centuries, and that have been disavowed by every thoughtful usage manual Picture Quote #1

Great writers are indecent people they live unfairly saving the best part for paper. good human beings save the world so that bastards like me can keep creating art, become immortal. if you read this after I am dead it means I made it Picture Quote #1

To write that essential book, a great writer does not need to invent it but merely to translate it, since it already exists in each one of us. The duty and task of a writer are those of translator Picture Quote #1

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A great lathe operator commands several times the wage of an average lathe operator, but a great writer of software code is worth 10,000 times the price of an average software writer Picture Quote #1

A great writer created 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 Picture Quote #1

It is splendid to be a great writer, to put men into the frying pan of your words and make them pop like chestnuts Picture Quote #1

Since great writers communicate a vision of existence, one can’t borrow their methods. The method is married to the vision Picture Quote #1

How simple the writing of literature would be if it were only necessary to write in another way what has been well written. It is because we have had such great writers in the past that a writer is driven far out past where he can go, out to where no one can help him Picture Quote #1

All great writers have, of course, an atmosphere in which they seem most at their ease and at their best; a mood of the general mind which they interpret and indeed almost discover, so that we come to read them rather for that than for any story or character or scene of seperate excellence Picture Quote #1

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A great writer has a high respect for values. His essential function is to raise life to the dignity of thought, and this he does by giving it a shape (Great Writer Quotes) 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 (Great Writer Quotes) I’m not on the run from anything and I’m not at all clear about what I’m running towards. But as some great writer put it, I want to be certain that when I arrive at death, I’m totally exhausted (Great Writer Quotes) Great orators who are not also great writers become very indistinct shadows to the generations following them. The spell vanishes with the voice (Great Writer Quotes) Sometimes you read a passage by a great writer, and you know what he says and how he says it will always be, for you, the only possible way it could be. Less often a painter will describe an event in a way that fits into your interpretation of that event so perfectly that it becomes the event itself (Great Writer Quotes) Great writers say things that are so beautiful, the very act of repeating them makes life itself more beautiful (Great Writer Quotes) I had no aspirations to become a landscape photographer at all. In fact it was portraiture that was my beginning, I suppose. I have always been a very keen walker, though, and I often took a camera with me on my walks. But I was, and still am, an avid reader and so when I first started I chose to photograph many of the great writers in this country to try and earn a living (Great Writer Quotes) Great writers are not those who tell us we shouldn’t play with fire, but those who make our fingers burn (Great Writer Quotes) A creative writing program is only as good as its teachers, and I was fortunate in having two great writers as mentors (Great Writer Quotes) It’s no use imagining that bringing great writers together inevitably precipitates great conversation (Great Writer Quotes) 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 (Great Writer Quotes) Talking to all those great writers and artists for the magazine was a form of graduate school for me (Great Writer Quotes) Great writers zealously learn the craft of their profession so they can release the power and the depth of their imagination and experience (Great Writer Quotes) When I hear of the destruction of a species, I feel just as if all the works of some great writer have perished (Great Writer Quotes) Stallone is a great writer. He wrote one of the best screenplays ever written. Rocky. It is one of the biggest classics of all time. I think in the past, he was shying away from writing his own stuff, because there is a lot of pressure when you star in something that you write (Great Writer Quotes) It is not unusual to hate great writers before we learn to love them. Because they have created something that did not yet exist, they must also create their audience. Sometimes the audience is not yet ready. Sometimes it has yet to be born (Great Writer Quotes) I was intoxicated by the romantic poetry of our great writers. I arranged the world according to my private use, looking at it through the poems I had devoured (Great Writer Quotes) I wish I was a great writer or a great journalist or a great scientist or a great artist; I’m not (Great Writer Quotes) I have never pretended to be a great writer. I am totally immodest about being a great reporter and a good news writer. I write fast and I write accurately, nearly as accurately as anybody can be, and that’s my skill (Great Writer Quotes) Great writers know what to cut out. It’s the same in life. Clear ambitions. Clear relationships. This is the stuff of good story (Great Writer Quotes) As actors, we were fighting that tooth and nail because of fear, because language is a crutch and dialogue is a crutch, and it’s so easy to just have a great writer write you a line (Great Writer Quotes) Language pedants hew to an oral tradition of shibboleths that have no basis in logic or style, that have been defied by great writers for centuries, and that have been disavowed by every thoughtful usage manual (Great Writer Quotes) Great writers are indecent people they live unfairly saving the best part for paper. good human beings save the world so that bastards like me can keep creating art, become immortal. if you read this after I am dead it means I made it (Great Writer Quotes) To write that essential book, a great writer does not need to invent it but merely to translate it, since it already exists in each one of us. The duty and task of a writer are those of translator (Great Writer Quotes) A great lathe operator commands several times the wage of an average lathe operator, but a great writer of software code is worth 10,000 times the price of an average software writer (Great Writer Quotes) A great writer created 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 (Great Writer Quotes) It is splendid to be a great writer, to put men into the frying pan of your words and make them pop like chestnuts (Great Writer Quotes) Since great writers communicate a vision of existence, one can’t borrow their methods. The method is married to the vision (Great Writer Quotes) How simple the writing of literature would be if it were only necessary to write in another way what has been well written. It is because we have had such great writers in the past that a writer is driven far out past where he can go, out to where no one can help him (Great Writer Quotes) All great writers have, of course, an atmosphere in which they seem most at their ease and at their best; a mood of the general mind which they interpret and indeed almost discover, so that we come to read them rather for that than for any story or character or scene of seperate excellence (Great Writer Quotes)

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