Top 38 Famous Writers Quotes
#1. For anyone to understand a regime like the GDR, the stories of ordinary people must be told. Not just the activists or the famous writers. You have to look at how normal people manage with such things in their pasts.
Anna Funder
#2. My office walls are covered with autographs of famous writers - it's what my children call my 'dead author wall.' I have signatures from Mark Twain, Earnest Hemingway, Jack London, Harriett Beecher Stowe, Pearl Buck, Charles Dickens, Rudyard Kipling, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, to name a few.
Debbie Macomber
#3. Our most famous writers are Faulkner and Eudora Welty and Flannery O'Connor. It would make sense that the poetry would reflect some of those same values, some of the same techniques.
Robert Morgan
#4. The best young writers are convinced they need blurbs from famous writers before an editor will even read the first page of a manuscript. If this is true, then the editorial system that prevails today stinks. And let's start reforming it.
Diane Wakoski
#5. I learned that famous writers are people with foibles like anyone else and this helped me realize reaching their level of notoriety wasn't impossible.
Kirby Wright
#6. We had all these famous writers in Sweden and from all over the world home at dinner. I wanted to be a writer, and I wanted to be a highbrow writer as my father. He never, ever read anything like crime novels. He wrote biographies of Dante, James Joyce, August Strindberg and Joseph Conrad.
David Lagercrantz
#7. All those happy, pretty, successful people- he hated them because he knew they didn't really exist, and he hated even more the magazine that glorified them and in a way that made them exist, actors, rock musicians, famous writers, politicians. Those aren't people, he fumed, they're photographs.
Russell Banks
#8. To my surprise, the more I searched about Qi Xiangfu, the more I found of a life lived partly online. He once wrote a short memoir in which he described himself in the third person, with the formality usually reserved for China's most famous writers.
Evan Osnos
#9. I've never tried to be famous or become a bestseller, just rich and remembered. The rest is a bonus.
Daniel Marques
#10. He was always being told that writers never become famous or rich, but of course that was not why he wrote, he wrote simply because he felt he had interesting stories to tell that people might like to hear.
Andrew James Pritchard
#12. I'm not famous for my back story investigations; I'm lucky that I work with good writers and it's usually in the script.
Bill Nighy
#13. Among the Diaries beginning with the second quarter of our century, there is frequent mention of a lady then becoming famous for her beauty and her wit: "an unusual combination," in the deliberate syllables of one of the writers, who is, however, not disposed to personal irony when speaking of her.
George Meredith
#14. To read and to write. Some writers have to be told to write. They think their job is to meet agents and have experiences and they can just be rich and famous. Their job is to write. Some really don't realize that. And you can't write unless you read.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#15. To put an arrogant 'famous' writer in his place: pretend to be illiterate.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#16. I think there are a lot more writers who are actors than you know; they just don't have roles on famous TV shows that you recognize.
Danny Strong
#17. No amount of therapy can replace the joy of revenge writing.
Mylo Carbia
#18. I saw that everything famous and beautiful in the world, if we judge by the descriptions and drawings of writers and artists, always loses when we go to see it and examine it closely.
Giacomo Casanova
#19. When a writer doesn't show his face, he becomes a local symptom of God's famous reluctance to appear.
Don DeLillo
#20. I can list on one hand the famous science fiction writers I never met.
Robert Silverberg
#21. Every famous writer was once an unknown writer. If publishers never published new writers, they wouldn't be publishing anyone at all after a while.
Victoria Strauss
#22. Have something to say, and say it as clearly as you can. That is the only secret.
Matthew Arnold
#23. The one thing I've always done as an author is talk to my publicists. Because they have all the best stories - and they have all the dirt on other, more famous and important writers. They're not supposed to talk about it, but sometimes you can get awesome little tidbits from them.
Lynn Coady
#24. As a writer, I tend to be drawn to marginal people - writers, poet-prophets, seers, eccentrics - who embody the deeper ambivalences of their societies and bear deeper witness to their world than the famous figures we are used to celebrating, or demonizing, in our histories.
Pankaj Mishra
#25. I called it a baptism in flaming ink that forced me to shed my shyness about recognizing myself as a poet and to accept the fact that life had never given me any choice in the matter. And then I had to discover exactly what that meant.
Aberjhani
#26. Do not hide your ignorance, because somebody might help you! Hiding always prolongs the problems.
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#27. Lolita is famous, not I. I am an obscure, doubly obscure, novelist with an unpronounceable name.
Vladimir Nabokov
#29. How many writers in history have ever been as famous as Stephen King? He casts an awfully long shadow.
Christopher Golden
#30. If you've ever wondered why some writers who, in your humble opinion, don't write as well as you do yet are rich and famous while you struggle onward, this is the reason. They are great directors.
Larry Brooks
#31. I have started a new blog W.A.R.(Writers Amongst Readers) for all those writing or reading books. Quotes, excerpts, comments from the world's greatest writers. See robinhawdonblog
Robin Hawdon
#32. An idea can be greater than the Sun, because with an intelligent idea, man can discover the way to create another sun! Idea is the greatest power in this universe!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#33. I have a great job writing for 'The Office,' but, really, all television writers do is dream of one day writing movies. I'll put it this way: At the Oscars the most famous person in the room is, like, Angelina Jolie. At the Emmys the huge exciting celebrity is Bethenny Frankel. You get what I mean.
Mindy Kaling
#35. I've enjoyed being a famous writer-except that every once in a while you have to write something.
Ken Kesey
#36. He developed his revolutionary philosophy, with its grounding not in the Bible or ancient writers but in human reason, and became famous and infamous for it.
Russell Shorto
#37. Some people desire to be famous. I probably wouldn't be very good at it.
Sarah Warman
#38. I have an ambition to write a great book, but that's really a competition with myself. I've noticed that a lot of young writers, people in all media, want to be famous but they don't really want to do anything. I can't think of anything less worth striving for than fame.
Zadie Smith
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