Top 23 Almost Great Writers Quotes
#1. For Milady was well aware that her most seductive power was in her voice, which could run skilfully through the whole scale of tones, from mortal speech, upwards to the language of heaven.
Alexandre Dumas
#2. For the most part, "naturals" are myths. People who are especially good at something may have some innate inclination, or some particular talent, but they have also spent about ten thousand hours practicing or doing that thing.
Meg Jay
#3. Almost all great writers have as their motif, more or less disguised, the passage from childhood to maturity, the clash between the thrill of expectation and the disillusioning knowledge of truth. 'Lost Illusion' is the undisclosed title of every novel.
Andre Maurois
#5. Practically all great artists and writers have had a mental illness of one kind or another. But it's the normal, everyday people who commit almost all of the violence. We should be wary of them.
Ryan Blacketter
#6. Every great writer is a writer of history, let him treat on almost any subject he may.
Walter Savage Landor
#7. The Lord so constituted everybody that no matter what color you are you require the same amount of nourishment.
Will Rogers
#8. When we deny our stories and disengage from tough emotions, they don't go away; instead, they own us, they define us.
Brene Brown
#9. When we truly care, we mix love, compassion, and kindness together in our hearts.
Debasish Mridha
#10. You are not realistic unless you believe in miracles!
Carlos Santana
#11. A great writer picks up on those things that matter. It's almost like their radar is attuned to the most significant moments.
Alain De Botton
#12. We value the devotedness of friendship rather as an oblation to vanity than as a free interchange of hearts; an endearing contract of sympathy, mutual forbearance, and respect!
Jane Porter
#13. Thats all I need. To find a soul mate to share my life with. To have a love so epic it will never die.
Susane Colasanti
#14. 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.
Virginia Woolf
#15. Napoleon: You have written this huge book on the system of the world without once mentioning the author of the universe. Laplace: Sire, I had no need of that hypothesis. Later when told by Napoleon about the incident, Lagrange commented: Ah, but that is a fine hypothesis. It explains so many things.
Pierre-Simon Laplace
#16. Deirdre Maddon has an extraordinary, almost celestial way of telling a story. There are so many great writers now - although I also want to go back and read all of Dickens again.
Rebecca Miller
#17. To interest is the first duty of art; no other excellences will ever begin to compensate for failure in this.
C.S. Lewis
#18. Togetherness, passion, laughter, faith, trust, and jealousy are the essential ingredients of love
Shahrukh Khan
#19. I have sometimes thought that his bursts of imaginative talk were fatal to his poetic gift. He squandered too much in the heat of personal communication.
Willa Cather
#20. All men are lonely. But sometimes it seems to me that we Americans are the loneliest of all. Our hunger for foreign places and new ways has been with us almost like a national disease. Our literature is stamped with a quality of longing and unrest, and our writers have been great wanderers.
Carson McCullers
#22. We are the most powerful nation in the world, but we're not the only nation in the world. We are not the only people in the world. We are an important people, the wealthiest, the most powerful and, to a great extent, generous. But we are part of the world.
Studs Terkel
#23. If you took everything I'd ever found hot in a girl and piled them into a corner, you'd get Cricket Hunt standing in a corner.
Fisher Amelie
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