Irwin Shaw
Novelist, Playwright
"The great writers just kept bringing them out. They didn't care if they repeated themselves."
Great Writers quotes
Great Writers
25 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Aimee Mann
Singer-songwriter
"I don't consider myself a great writer, but I would like to think that I can at least proof- read."
Honore de Balzac
Novelist
"A great writer is nothing less than a martyr who does not die."
Allen Ginsberg
Poet, Activist
"We are great writers on the same dreadful typewriter"
Ernest Hemingway
Novelist
"In order to be a great writer a person must have a built-in, shockproof crap detector."
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"Great writers create; writers of smaller gifts copy"
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"A great writer has all 4 - but you can still be a good writer with only 1 and 2."
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