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Great Writers Quotes

Writers, especially when they act in a body and with one direction, have great influence on the public mind Picture Quote #1

All great literary works influence us as writers, not their stories as much as their storytelling ability Picture Quote #1

In pure literature, the writers of the eighteenth century achieved, indeed, many triumphs; but their great, their peculiar, triumphs were in the domain of thought Picture Quote #1

The great wisdom for writers, perhaps for everybody, is to come to understand to be at one with their own tempo 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

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

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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

Writers think in metaphors. Editors work in metaphors. A great reader reads in metaphors Picture Quote #1

I was a pretty good fighter. But it was the writers who made me great Picture Quote #1

Good writers borrow from other writers. Great writers steal from them outright Picture Quote #1

I have great respect for children. And I have great respect for their ability as writers 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

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Many great writers have been extraordinarily awkward in daily exchange, but the greatest give the impression that their style was nursed by the closest attention to colloquial speech Picture Quote #1

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

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

It’s no use imagining that bringing great writers together inevitably precipitates great conversation 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

Great writers are not those who tell us we shouldn’t play with fire, but those who make our fingers burn 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 say things that are so beautiful, the very act of repeating them makes life itself more beautiful 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

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 Picture Quote #1

They certainly are not great writers, but they speak their country's language and they make themselves heard 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

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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

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

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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Writers, especially when they act in a body and with one direction, have great influence on the public mind (Great Writers Quotes) All great literary works influence us as writers, not their stories as much as their storytelling ability (Great Writers Quotes) In pure literature, the writers of the eighteenth century achieved, indeed, many triumphs; but their great, their peculiar, triumphs were in the domain of thought (Great Writers Quotes) The great wisdom for writers, perhaps for everybody, is to come to understand to be at one with their own tempo (Great Writers 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 Writers 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 Writers 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 Writers Quotes) Writers think in metaphors. Editors work in metaphors. A great reader reads in metaphors (Great Writers Quotes) I was a pretty good fighter. But it was the writers who made me great (Great Writers Quotes) Good writers borrow from other writers. Great writers steal from them outright (Great Writers Quotes) I have great respect for children. And I have great respect for their ability as writers (Great Writers 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 Writers Quotes) Many great writers have been extraordinarily awkward in daily exchange, but the greatest give the impression that their style was nursed by the closest attention to colloquial speech (Great Writers 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 Writers Quotes) Talking to all those great writers and artists for the magazine was a form of graduate school for me (Great Writers Quotes) It’s no use imagining that bringing great writers together inevitably precipitates great conversation (Great Writers Quotes) A creative writing program is only as good as its teachers, and I was fortunate in having two great writers as mentors (Great Writers Quotes) Great writers are not those who tell us we shouldn’t play with fire, but those who make our fingers burn (Great Writers 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 Writers Quotes) Great writers say things that are so beautiful, the very act of repeating them makes life itself more beautiful (Great Writers 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 Writers Quotes) 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 (Great Writers Quotes) They certainly are not great writers, but they speak their country's language and they make themselves heard (Great Writers 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 Writers 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 Writers 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 Writers 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 Writers Quotes) Since great writers communicate a vision of existence, one can’t borrow their methods. The method is married to the vision (Great Writers 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 Writers 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 Writers Quotes)

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