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In Jason Fried's book Rework, he writes that one of the smartest investments a business can make is in hiring great writers, and I completely agree. No ~ Sophia Amoruso
Great Writers quotes by Sophia Amoruso
Hire great writers If you are trying to decide among a few people to fill a position, hire the best writer. It doesn't matter if that person is a marketer, salesperson, designer, programmer, or whatever; their writing skills will pay off. That's because being a good writer is about more than writing. Clear writing is a sign of clear thinking. Great writers know how to communicate. They make things easy to understand. They can put themselves in someone else's shoes. They know what to omit. And those are qualities you want in any candidate. ~ Jason Fried
Great Writers quotes by Jason Fried
Yet, it ought to be obvious that good music generally occupies a higher plane that mere politics. Great writers can express moods through melody and capture experiences we share most powerfully - love, lust, longing; joy, rage, fear; triumph, yearning and confusion. ~ Tony Snow
Great Writers quotes by Tony Snow
Sometimes you read a passage by a great writer, and you know what he says and how he says it will always be, for you, the only possible way it could be. Less often a painter will describe an event in a way that fits into your interpretation of that event so perfectly that it becomes the event itself. ~ Vincent Price
Great Writers quotes by Vincent Price
I haven't stuck to any formula. Most great writers stick to the same style, but I wanted to be more various. ~ Irwin Shaw
Great Writers quotes by Irwin Shaw
It is commonly said to my little friend Legion: Read the great writers for style. But I say to him: Read the great dead masters for ideas. Devour them, Fletcherize them, digest, assimilate, make them part of your blood; let the enriched blood visit your brain. The resultant activities will be fairly your own, and the little kinks and convolutions of your brain, which are entirely different from the kinks of any other brain, will furnish you all the style you will ever get.
There are no really fresh ideas; just as there is not any fresh air. Air and ideas are refreshed and refreshing, vitalized and vitalizing; but the thoughts have been thought before and the air has been breathed before. ~ Eugene Manlove Rhodes
Great Writers quotes by Eugene Manlove Rhodes
I'm just in profound gratitude that we get to go back and work on a show that we love, with amazing actors and great writers, and be a part of the Marvel universe. As with all of the characters in Jessica Jones, Trish has an alias. ~ Rachael Taylor
Great Writers quotes by Rachael Taylor
In America, I am brown; I'm 'of colour', so I would be offered Latin roles, and I've fought against that. I don't want to be put in a category, to be just offered the same sort of thing. For me, it's all about different roles, telling the stories of the great writers. ~ Santiago Cabrera
Great Writers quotes by Santiago Cabrera
Hay he's a great writer and i like him a lot ~ Jeff Kinney
Great Writers quotes by Jeff Kinney
Great writers are not those who tell us we shouldn't play with fire, but those who make our fingers burn. ~ Stephen Vizinczey
Great Writers quotes by Stephen Vizinczey
Great writers are indecent people they live unfairly saving the best part for paper. good human beings save the world so that bastards like me can keep creating art, become immortal. if you read this after I am dead it means I made it. ~ Charles Bukowski
Great Writers quotes by Charles Bukowski
David O. Russell is probably my favorite filmmaker. He's not only a great director, but he's also a great writer. ~ Adam McKay
Great Writers quotes by Adam McKay
Great writers create; writers of smaller gifts copy ~ W. Somerset Maugham
Great Writers quotes by W. Somerset Maugham
People should think that being a writer is cool. Even if you're just a starving writer. Besides, most great writers were starving at one point or another. It comes with the title. ~ Zack Love
Great Writers quotes by Zack Love
But good writers have a reason for doing things the way they do them, and if you tinker with their work, taking it upon yourself to neutralize a slightly eccentric usage or zap a comma or sharpen the emphasis of something that the writer was deliberately keeping obscure, you are not helping. In my experience, the really great writers enjoy the editorial process. They weigh queries, and they accept or reject them for good reasons. They are not defensive. The whole point of having things read before publication is to test their effect on a general reader. You want to make sure when you go out there that the tag on the back of your collar isn't poking up - unless, of course, you are deliberately wearing your clothes inside out. ~ Mary Norris
Great Writers quotes by Mary Norris
A great writer reveals the truth even when he or she does not wish to. ~ Tom Bissell
Great Writers quotes by Tom Bissell
The public has an exalted view of authors, and rightly so. Great writers impact deeply on our imagination. And yet, behind the kudos, there sometimes lurks a person at odds with the nobility of the author photo or the 'sheer humanity' of the prose style. ~ Conrad Williams
Great Writers quotes by Conrad Williams
Great writers zealously learn the craft of their profession so they can release the power and the depth of their imagination and experience. ~ Leonard Bishop
Great Writers quotes by Leonard Bishop
I've known Shawn for several years. And he's just an amazing talent. He's a great writer, a marvelous, marvelous guitar player, and plays really good fiddle. ~ Guy Clark
Great Writers quotes by Guy Clark
Why, for example, do the great writers use anticipation instead of surprise? Because surprise is merely an instrument of the unusual, whereas anticipation of a consequence enlarges our understanding of what is happening. ~ Roger Rosenblatt
Great Writers quotes by Roger Rosenblatt
All the great writers are like that: the beauty of their sentences, like the beauty of a woman one has not yet met, is unforeseeable ... ~ Marcel Proust
Great Writers quotes by Marcel Proust
Reading while I'm writing ideally inspires my competitive side. When I read great writers, I want to be a better writer. ~ Amity Gaige
Great Writers quotes by Amity Gaige
All great writers share one thing in common:

They finished their books. ~ M. Kirin
Great Writers quotes by M. Kirin
A great writer has all 4 - but you can still be a good writer with only 1 and 2. ~ Susan Sontag
Great Writers quotes by Susan Sontag
I have never thought of myself as a good writer. Anyone who wants reassurance of that should read one of my first drafts. But I'm one of the world's great rewriters. ~ James A. Michener
Great Writers quotes by James A. Michener
All of the great writers and sages we are so quick to quote have simply given their interpretation of what it means to be human. ~ Chris Matakas
Great Writers quotes by Chris Matakas
Lizzy Weiss is such a great writer, and she really writes for the performances. ~ Vanessa Marano
Great Writers quotes by Vanessa Marano
I'm with you in Rockland, where we are great writers on this same dreadful typewriter. ~ Allen Ginsberg
Great Writers quotes by Allen Ginsberg
In America, the race goes to the loud, the solemn, the hustler. If you think you're a great writer, you must say that you are. ~ Gore Vidal
Great Writers quotes by Gore Vidal
Good writers borrow from other writers. Great writers steal from them outright. ~ Aaron Sorkin
Great Writers quotes by Aaron Sorkin
Canada has always been a great place for literature. It's strong and growing stronger, and there will always be reading, and there will always be great writers. ~ Ruth Ozeki
Great Writers quotes by Ruth Ozeki
The great writers have always been great readers, but that does not mean that they read all the books that, in their day, were listed as the indispensable ones. In many cases, they read fewer books than are now required in most of our colleges, but what they did read, they read well. Because they had mastered these books, they became peers with their authors. They were entitled to become authorities in their own right. In the natural course of events, a good student frequently becomes a teacher, and so, too, a good reader becomes an author. ~ Mortimer J. Adler
Great Writers quotes by Mortimer J. Adler
The great writers just kept bringing them out. They didn't care if they repeated themselves. ~ Irwin Shaw
Great Writers quotes by Irwin Shaw
America was, alas, a country of great eccentrics and great prudes, of great writers and few readers. ~ Edmund White
Great Writers quotes by Edmund White
I guess it's like James Joyce when he was a kid, you know. He hung out with all the great writers of the day, and he was a little kid, like, with tennis shoes on, and they said 'Look at this lame!' They didn't use those words in those days. They said 'God, here comes this nut.' And he told them, 'I'm great!' And he sat with them, and he loved to be with them, and it ended up that he was great. ~ Art Pepper
Great Writers quotes by Art Pepper
All great writers have issues with their hometowns; guess I'm not the exception. ~ Chris Colfer
Great Writers quotes by Chris Colfer
But there were other great writers who had done all these things. What set Shakespeare apart ... even from other greats, was his generosity: his invitation, even insistence,for others to join him in the act of imagining ... His reticence [to add stage directions] made his works wonderfully elastic. It also made them demnding
sometimes maddeningly so
for directors and actors who had to figure out at every turn why these words and no others needed to be said right here and now. But Shakespeare was also demanding of his audiences: 'Yes,' you could almost hear him say, 'you are sitting in a fairly barren wooden theater. But dream yourselves to France. To a seacoast in Bohemia. To a magic-haunted island in a tempest-tossed sea. I dare you.' -Kate Stanley ~ Jennifer Lee Carrell
Great Writers quotes by Jennifer Lee Carrell
I know that one is able to win people far more by the spoken that by the written word, and that every great movement on this globe owes its rise to the great speakers and not to the great writers. ~ Adolf Hitler
Great Writers quotes by Adolf Hitler
I've never felt grounded because of my ancestry or my gender. I think until women get away from that they're not going to be great writers. ~ Patti Smith
Great Writers quotes by Patti Smith
all of the great writers drank, except for Kafka and Nietzsche, neither of whom you exactly wanted to be when you grew up. ~ Anne Lamott
Great Writers quotes by Anne Lamott
On one plane, the very great writers and the popular romancers of the lower order always meet. They use all of themselves, helplessly, unselectively. They are above the primness and good taste of declining to give themselves away. ~ V.S. Pritchett
Great Writers quotes by V.S. Pritchett
He who has experienced the mystery of the nature is full of life, full of love, full of joy. Radiance emanates from the whole existence itself, it does not know the meaning of holding back. It is pure giving-giving of love. For the great writers, love is like holding ice in hand, it just turns to water and they lose out their role but for a mystic the moment ice transforms to water love starts to flow. ~ Maitreya Rudrabhayananda
Great Writers quotes by Maitreya Rudrabhayananda
My job is to get people to write something truthful, something about truth and beauty - wherever they are - and to understand how literature is made. And then if they become great writers, that's great, and probably has nothing to do with me. ~ Grace Paley
Great Writers quotes by Grace Paley
Great orators who are not also great writers become very indistinct shadows to the generations following them. The spell vanishes with the voice. ~ Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Great Writers quotes by Thomas Bailey Aldrich
One thing I'd do was put a great writer's book beside the typewriter and ... type out a beautiful and moving paragraph ... and see those sentences rising up ... and ... think, 'Someday maybe I can write like that ... ' It was like a dream of possibilities for my own self. And maybe I began to know that there was no other way for the sentence ... to ... arouse the same feeling. The someone writing whose words were rising from the typewriter became like a mentor for me ... You shouldn't do it more than a few times because you must get on with your own work. ~ Gina Berriault
Great Writers quotes by Gina Berriault
I don't consider myself a great writer, but I would like to think that I can at least proof- read. ~ Aimee Mann
Great Writers quotes by Aimee Mann
For a country to have a great writer is like having another government, ~ Mark Bowden
Great Writers quotes by Mark Bowden
Maybe you could be a great writer - maybe even good enough to write a book or articles in a newspaper - but you might not know it until you write that English paper - that English class paper that's assigned to you. ~ Barack Obama
Great Writers quotes by Barack Obama
Sit down and put down everything that comes into your head and then you're a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff's worth, without pity, and destroy most of it. ~ Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
Great Writers quotes by Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
It's worth pointing out that [Herman Melville] worked in [the New York Custom House] as a deputy customs inspector between 1866 and 1885. Nineteen years, and he never got a raise - four dollars a day, six days a week. He was by then a washed-up writer, forgotten and poor. I used to find this subject heartbreaking, a waste: the greatest living American author was forced to spend his days writing tariff reports instead of novels. But now, knowing what I know about the sleaze of the New York Custom House, and the honorable if bitter decency with which Melville did his job, I have come to regard literature's loss as the republic's gain. Great writers are a dime a dozen in New York. But an honest customs inspector in the Gilded Age? Unheard of. ~ Sarah Vowell
Great Writers quotes by Sarah Vowell
There are other great writers who are not read properly in their own day for the reason, perhaps, that their readers are not yet born. What they have to say to their own generation is said so at cross-purposes and with such apparent irrelevance that it is not understood. They are, as it were, giants who tower above their own age to cast their shadows across the next. ~ Caroline Gordon
Great Writers quotes by Caroline Gordon
I hate to see great writers like Ringel and Ansen and Jan Stuart (among many others) being put out to pastures because print media is suffering. ~ Alonso Duralde
Great Writers quotes by Alonso Duralde
I think the writer is initially set going by literature more than by life. When there are many writers all employing the same idiom, all looking out on more or less the same social scene, the individual writer will have to be more than ever careful that he isn't just doing badly what has already been done to completion. The presence alone of Faulkner in our midst makes a great difference in what the writer can and cannot permit himself to do. Nobody wants his mule and wagon stalled on the same track the Dixie Limited is roaring down. ~ Flannery O'Connor
Great Writers quotes by Flannery O'Connor
The good writer, the great writer, has what I have called the three S's: the power to see, to sense, and to say. That is, he is perceptive, he is feeling, and he has the power to express in language what he observes and reacts to. ~ Lawrence Clark Powell
Great Writers quotes by Lawrence Clark Powell
People want to establish a canon, because people want to imagine that there are great writers and lesser writers and they want the mythology, they want the narrative for themselves. And it's embarrassing. ~ Tim Parks
Great Writers quotes by Tim Parks
The great writers are great as they have big workshop of imagination. ~ Kishore Bansal
Great Writers quotes by Kishore Bansal
I've been so lucky to work with some great, great writers: Tony Kushner and Yasmina Reza. ~ Marcia Gay Harden
Great Writers quotes by Marcia Gay Harden
If you want to teach women to be great writers, you should show them the best, and the best was often done by men. It was more often done by men than by women, if we're going to be truthful. ~ A.S. Byatt
Great Writers quotes by A.S. Byatt
Television in the last few years has been where all the great writers are going. TV now is what indie film used to be. ~ Jeff Daniels
Great Writers quotes by Jeff Daniels
Many great writers address audiences who do not exist; to address passionately and sometimes with very great wisdom people who do not exist has this advantage - that there will always be a group of people who, seeing a man shouting apparently at somebody or other, and seeing nobody else in sight, will think it is they who are being addressed. ~ Wyndham Lewis
Great Writers quotes by Wyndham Lewis
The great writers to whom the world owes what religious liberty it possesses, have mostly asserted freedom of conscience as an indefeasible right, and denied absolutely that a human being is accountable to others for his religious belief. Yet so natural to mankind is intolerance in whatever they really care about, that religious freedom has hardly anywhere been practically realised, except where religious indifference, which dislikes to have its peace disturbed by theological quarrels, has added its weight to the scale. ~ John Stuart Mill
Great Writers quotes by John Stuart Mill
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
Great Writers quotes by Darnell Lamont Walker
As individuals, great writers from Villon to Diderot to Voltaire to
Rousseau to Byron or Shelley have often shown themselves to be
irresponsible, selfish, mean or sometimes even cowardly people. Their lives were drab or self destructive or reckless.
We read them for their Words, not for their deeds. ~ Max Vegaritter
Great Writers quotes by Max Vegaritter
Now lend me your ears. Here is Creative Writing 101:

1. Use the time of a total stranger in such a way that he or she will not feel the time was wasted.
2. Give the reader at least one character he or she can root for.
3. Every character should want something, even if it is only a glass of water.
4. Every sentence must do one of two things - reveal character or advance the action.
5. Start as close to the end as possible.
6. Be a sadist. No matter sweet and innocent your leading characters, make awful things happen to them - in order that the reader may see what they are made of.
7. Write to please just one person. If you open a window and make love to the world, so to speak, your story will get pneumonia.
8. Give your readers as much information as possible as soon as possible. To heck with suspense. Readers should have such complete understanding of what is going on, where and why, that they could finish the story themselves, should cockroaches eat the last few pages.

The greatest American short story writer of my generation was Flannery O'Connor (1925-1964). She broke practically every one of my rules but the first. Great writers tend to do that. ~ Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Great Writers quotes by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
The great writers, Conrad, Maugham and Melville, spent only a few years in the South Seas, but their memory of those waters was indestructible; for the nature of life in the islands commands attention to the vivid world and its even more vivid inhabitants. ~ James A. Michener
Great Writers quotes by James A. Michener
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
Great Writers quotes by Andre Maurois
How do you get the happy ending? John Irving ought to know. One of my favorite authors, Irving writes these multigenerational epics of fiction that somehow work out in the end. How does he do it? He says, 'I always begin with the last sentence ; then I work my way backwards, through the plot, to where the story should begin.' Thst sounds like a lot of work, especially compared to the fantasy that great writers sit down and just go where the story takes them. Irving lets us know that good stories and happy endings are more intentional than that.
Most 20 something's can't write the last sentence of their lives. But when pressed, they usually can identify things they want in their 30s or 40s or 60s -or things they don't want- and work backward from there. This is how you have your own multigenerational epic with a happy ending. This is how you live your life in real time. ~ Meg Jay
Great Writers quotes by Meg Jay
I have written about some truly great writers - John Steinbeck, Robert Frost, and William Faulkner. Faulkner and Frost were the very peaks of American poetry and fiction in the 20th century. ~ Jay Parini
Great Writers quotes by Jay Parini
I think one of the things the writers' festival does that is very good is that it brings writers from around the world and around the country and locally and puts them all in the one spot together, and that's what a lot of the world's great writers' festivals do. ~ Nick Earls
Great Writers quotes by Nick Earls
I don't care if a reader hates one of my stories, Just as long as he finishes the book. ~ Roald Dahl
Great Writers quotes by Roald Dahl
I was very pleased, obviously, to have outsold great writers. But I'm not insane - I do realise that I am a popular writer who people buy to take on vacation. ~ Maeve Binchy
Great Writers quotes by Maeve Binchy
Not all great writers may seem great to us, regardless of how often and how hard we try to see their virtues. I know, for example, that Trollope is considered to have been a brilliant novelist, but I've never quite understood what makes his fans so fervent. Still, our tastes change as we ourselves change and grow older, and perhaps in a few months or so Trollope will have become my new favorite writer. ~ Francine Prose
Great Writers quotes by Francine Prose
Each writer is born with a repertory company in his head. ~ Gore Vidal
Great Writers quotes by Gore Vidal
When I was in law school I was taught that the great writers were people like [Oliver Wendell] Holmes Jr. and [Benjamin N.] Cardozo. But you go back and read their prose and it's sort of perfumed and very ornate and show-offy. And they're constantly striving for these abstractions that seem archaic nowadays. ~ Jeffrey Rosen
Great Writers quotes by Jeffrey Rosen
The letters of famous people can be placed into two categories: there is the type of letter which becomes itself a valuable contribution to literature through its wit, style or wisdom; another kind is that whose main importance lies in the provision of a background to their author's life. Especially in the correspondence of great writers and poets, these two factors are very often combined ... ~ Muriel Spark
Great Writers quotes by Muriel Spark
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
Great Writers quotes by Clive Barnes
For sure, without question, the writing is better on TV pound for pound than movies because the businesses have changed so much. So all the great writers would rather work for TV, and they do. ~ Rob Lowe
Great Writers quotes by Rob Lowe
On a court full of great writers, I shouldn't say full of - there have been some bad writers on the court over the years. We've just lost a great writer in Antonin Scalia. ~ Dahlia Lithwick
Great Writers quotes by Dahlia Lithwick
Many great writers have been extraordinarily awkward in daily exchange, but the greatest give the impression that their style was nursed by the closest attention to colloquial speech. ~ Thornton Wilder
Great Writers quotes by Thornton Wilder
When you got source material, whether it's a play or a book - a great writer often appreciates being adapted and developed. It's like when you go see a production of a great play and they are always different. There is always room for interpretation. ~ Jude Law
Great Writers quotes by Jude Law
I simply try to act as an honest broker for greater persons and writers than I am ... I present no theory, nor do I have one ... I have constructed no Schema ... in terms of the struggle between Eros and agape and the futility of the former in the face of the latter. I have no aspirations, hoping only to show you what some great writers thought these things are. ~ Allan Bloom
Great Writers quotes by Allan Bloom
You can always tell the quality of an author by their cover picture. Bad writers bear an idiotic smile on the inside flap. Great writers take up the entire back cover looking slightly mad, sad, or bored. The very best writers, though, had the superior ability to die before photography was invented. ~ Bauvard
Great Writers quotes by Bauvard
There's sort of a very symbiotic thing that happens on good TV shows with great writers, which is that they start to sort of embrace who the actors are and try to make the roles more specific to what they bring and what they can do. ~ Lucas Neff
Great Writers quotes by Lucas Neff
Listen to the Bee Gees and you can learn to be a great writer. ~ Kara DioGuardi
Great Writers quotes by Kara DioGuardi
It is not unusual to hate great writers before we learn to love them. Because they have created something that did not yet exist, they must also create their audience. Sometimes the audience is not yet ready. Sometimes it has yet to be born. ~ Erica Jong
Great Writers quotes by Erica Jong
It's hard to resist the magical thinking that the work habits of great writers are the key to their greatness. ~ Zoe Heller
Great Writers quotes by Zoe Heller
Most of the great writers wrote the same character over and over again under different names, in different plots, throughout their lives. Those particular characters have the motivations those particular writers understand. Deeply. Profoundly. In the magnificent, complex manner necessary to write about it. ~ Victoria Mixon
Great Writers quotes by Victoria Mixon
He was so good at everything he did. You can't call Ronnie Barker a comedian. He was an actor, and a great writer. ~ Bruce Forsyth
Great Writers quotes by Bruce Forsyth
Everyone has access to a pen and paper, but to be a great writer is difficult. ~ Pamela Yates
Great Writers quotes by Pamela Yates
I used to be opposed to collaboration, and that's probably why the music in the past wasn't as good. Writing with other people, especially the great writers that I've had the privilege to write with, it activates something in your mind that you wouldn't use alone. ~ Charlie Puth
Great Writers quotes by Charlie Puth
We have already shown by references to the contemporary drama that the plea of custom is not sufficient to explain Shakespeare's attitude to the lower classes, but if we widen our survey to the entire field of English letters in his day, we shall see that he was running counter to all the best traditions of our literature. From the time of Piers Plowman down, the peasant had stood high with the great writers of poetry and prose alike. Chaucer's famous circle of story-tellers at the Tabard Inn in Southwark was eminently democratic. ~ William Shakespeare
Great Writers quotes by William Shakespeare
A great writer is, so to speak, a second government in his country. And for that reason no regime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones. ~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Great Writers quotes by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
English literature is a glorious inheritance which is open to all - there are no barriers, no coupons, and no restrictions. In the English language and in its great writers there are great riches and treasures, of which, of course, the Bible and Shakespeare stand along on the highest platform. ~ Winston Churchill
Great Writers quotes by Winston Churchill
All great writers begin with a good leather binding and a respectable title. ~ James M. Barrie
Great Writers quotes by James M. Barrie
To great writers, finished works weigh lighter than those fragments on which they labor their entire lives. ~ Walter Benjamin
Great Writers quotes by Walter Benjamin
I have advice for people who want to write. I don't care whether they're 5 or 500. There are three things that are important: First, if you want to write, you need to keep an honest, unpublishable journal that nobody reads, nobody but you. Where you just put down what you think about life, what you think about things, what you think is fair and what you think is unfair. And second, you need to read. You can't be a writer if you're not a reader. It's the great writers who teach us how to write. The third thing is to write. Just write a little bit every day. Even if it's for only half an hour - write, write, write. ~ Madeleine L'Engle
Great Writers quotes by Madeleine L'Engle
There are damn few great writers and I'm not one of them. While I could afford to I played with words. When I could no longer afford that I wrote for money. ~ Rex Stout
Great Writers quotes by Rex Stout
I think great writers should write great shows, and I have trouble with, like, what you are in life shouldn't automatically make you what you do in your art. It doesn't necessarily translate. ~ Jenji Kohan
Great Writers quotes by Jenji Kohan
One of the traps of adolescence is the sort of paranoid resentment that somehow you're never going to match up and that everybody else's life is going to be better and finer and fuller. That everyone else attended some secret lesson in which how to live was taught and you had a dental appointment that day, or you were somehow not invited. And the point of great writers like Wilde is that they make that invitation to you. ~ Stephen Fry
Great Writers quotes by Stephen Fry
You can find all the new ideas in the old books; only there you will find them balanced, kept in their place, and sometimes contradicted and overcome by other and better ideas. The great writers did not neglect a fad because they had not thought of it, but because they had thought of it and of all the answers to it as well. ~ G.K. Chesterton
Great Writers quotes by G.K. Chesterton
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