Quotes About Writing

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.

Great books write themselves, only bad books have to be written.

Jesse Joyce is a great writer.

For me, the guitar synthesizer is a great writing instrument.

Royal Canadian Air Farce, and I was in three sketches there. And they wrote some really great stuff for me.

I'm not a great writer. I'm a great rewriter.

When I was starting to write, the great influence was T.S. Eliot and after that William Butler Yeats.

Write while the heat is in you.

Most of my success, I feel, comes from being a good editor as opposed to a great writer.

I don't consider myself a great writer, but I would like to think that I can at least proof- read.

I can't change overnight into a serious literary author. You can't compare apples to oranges. William Faulkner was a great literary genius. I am not.

The writing of history is largely a process of diversion. Most historical accounts distract attention from the secret influences behind great events.

I've always had standards about writing well. There is art in this business. There is potentially great art.

Never correct or rewrite until the whole thing is down.

My father was a frustrated writer. I think he wanted to write the great American novel.

It's just lovely to be involved in a movie that does go back to the basics - characters and great writing.

The great art in writing advertisements is the finding out of a proper method to catch the reader's eye; without which, a good thing may pass over unobserved, or lost among commissions of bankrupt.

In order to be a great writer a person must have a built-in, shockproof crap detector.

Essential characteristic of the really great novelist: a Christ-like, all-embracing compassion.

There isn't, even now, a great tradition of novel-writing in Afghanistan. Most of the literature is in the form of poetry.

hay he's a great writer and i like him a lot

Talking to all those great writers and artists for the magazine was a form of graduate school for me.

Ultimately, whether we are writing posts, paragraphs, essays, arguments, memoirs, monographs or even just the Great American Tweet, writing is and should be a grand adventure.

Our minds simply don't function in some sort of narrative chronology. I think that one of the great gifts of writing fiction is being able to think about that.