“Good writers indulge their audience; great writers know better.”
The Well-Spoken Thesaurus (2011)
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“American writers want to be not good but great; and so are neither.”
Gore Vidal book Two Sisters
Two Sisters: A Memoir in the Form of a Novel http://books.google.com/books?id=xnJbAAAAMAAJ&q=&quot;American+writers+want+to+be+not+good+but+great+and+so+are+neither&quot; (1970) <br class="br">1970s
“A bad writer is just a good writer with writer's block.”
Darby Conley (1970) American cartoonist
Strip from November 18, 2006
Bucky Katt
Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961) American author and journalist
Nobel Prize Speech (1954)
Context: No writer who knows the great writers who did not receive the Prize can accept it other than with humility. There is no need to list these writers. Everyone here may make his own list according to his knowledge and his conscience.
“If you need drugs to be a good writer, you're not a good writer.”
Rod Serling (1924–1975) American screenwriter
The Rod Serling bio page on the Internet Movie DataBase.
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“Bad writers have influences. Good writers steal.”
S.M. Stirling (1953) Canadian-American author, primarily of speculative fiction
Dragon Page Cover to Cover interview, Episode 372A (8 September 2009)
“I believe in neither a director’s nor a writer’s theatre, but a theatre of intelligent audiences.”
Kenneth Tynan (1927–1980) English theatre critic and writer
Letter to George Devine (10 March 1964), printed in Kenneth Tynan : A Life by Dominic Shellard<!-- Yale University Press, 2003, --> , p. 292
Context: I believe in neither a director’s nor a writer’s theatre, but a theatre of intelligent audiences. I count myself as a member of an intelligent audience, and I wrote to you as such. That you should disagree with me I can understand, but that you should resent my expressing my opinions is something that frankly amazes me. I thought we had outgrown the idea of theatre as a mystic rite born of secret communion between author, director, actors and an empty auditorium.
