Great Writer Words Quotes

#1. Words mean more than we mean to express when we use them: so a whole book ought to mean a great deal more than the writer meant.

Lewis Carroll

#2. I cannot tell you how important fresh, crisp writing is for an aspiring writer. Plot is great. The overall concept is super important. But the writing is what sells your work. It all boils down to the words you choose and the order in which you arrange them.

Darynda Jones

#3. Why do I feel ashamed to use words like democracy and
freedom and brotherhood? They don't have meaning any
more. I have nothing to write about any more. Remember
all that writing I did? I was going to be a great socialist
writer. I can't make sense of a word, a simple word.

Arnold Wesker

#4. To be a great writer you must be fearless with your words.

Karmel Graham

#5. Words belong to each other, although, of course, only a great writer knows that the word incarnadine belongs to multitudinous seas.

Virginia Woolf

#6. Artists, especially writers, great writers, are the most honest people I know. There are deep confessions in their words. And if we're strong enough to expose the spaces between them, we find truths there also.

Darnell Lamont Walker

#7. Before climbing the summits, you must first walk in the down valleys!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#8. Skepticism, like chastity, should not be relinquished too readily.

George Santayana

#9. I'm very much afraid I didn't mean anything but nonsense. Still, you know, words mean more than we mean to express when we use them; so a whole book ought to mean a great deal more than the writer means. So, whatever good meanings are in the book, I'm glad to accept as the meaning of the book.

Lewis Carroll

#10. Men think they think upon the great political questions, and they do; but they think with their party, not independently; they read its literature, but not that of the other side

Mark Twain

#11. I want my life to be the greatest story.
My very existence will be the greatest poem.
Watch me burn.
Love always, Charlotte

Charlotte Eriksson

#12. In the words of a great writer, we find our own neglected thoughts.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#13. I am convinced that anyone can be a great writer ... if he can only ... tell the naked truth about himself and other people. That, a little technique with words and the willingness to bare heart, soul and body are really all it takes.

Clive Barnes

#14. A great writer weaves words like a painter mixes colors.

James D. Maxon

#15. What a great thing! To be a writer! Words are something you can carry in your head. You can really 'travel light.'

Robert Creeley

#16. Sparhawk just sounded too ludicrous for words when spoken out loud. What had the writer been thinking? Oh, do me, great big Sparhawk. You the man.' (Taryn)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#17. You are not an extra in somebody else's film. You are the star in your own life.

Faye Dunaway

#18. I want someone to attack me. No weapons. Just me and him. I like to beat men and beat them bad

Mike Tyson

#19. I was considered as a jazz man rather than as a blues player. There were no blues players-you played one sort of jazz of another sort of jazz.

Alexis Korner

#20. You cannot be a great writer in a shop where words are sold in tens and twenties.

Rick Aster

#21. The great writer evokes the words
that buried within hearts of readers.

Toba Beta

#22. Three can do more than ten when Our Lord puts His hand to things, and He always does so when He takes away the means of doing otherwise.

Vincent De Paul