Nelson Rodrigues Quotes
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I get intrigued by a first lin and I write to find out why it means something to me. You make discoveries just the way the reader does, so you're simultaneously the writer and the reader.
E. L. Doctorow -
I've basically worked as a journalist and a writer.
Laura Moser -
I was a writer for hire. I wrote to pay the bills.
Damien Chazelle -
Well I could have been just a writer. I had been a hair dresser. I could have stuck with that.
Fran Drescher -
A writer has to live with a sense of honor.
Irwin Shaw -
I was just as voracious a writer as I was a reader.
Iris Johansen
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When you've finished reading every last thing by a famous writer, literary convention holds that you move on to his or her letters, the DVD extras peddled by publishers.
Karan Mahajan -
There are three things that make a person a writer: inspiration, perspiration and desperation.
Harlan Coben -
I'm not a great writer.
E. L. James -
When I was a little boy, they called me a liar, but now that I am grown up, they call me a writer.
Isaac Bashevis Singer -
I didn't know how to be a writer. But I thought, 'I can do this.'
Karen Robards -
I don't look at myself as a writer; I am a storyteller.
Vikas Swarup
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I don't go around thinking about regret; regret doesn't consume me as a person... I'm not certain about whether any writer, any artist, any musician, can write without regret, so I don't think perhaps it's even particularly Southern.
Barry Hannah -
My favorite short-story writer is John Cheever.
Irwin Shaw -
Lizzy Weiss is such a great writer, and she really writes for the performances.
Vanessa Marano -
I'm not an autobiographical writer, but I am a writer who deals with human emotion on all levels.
P. J. Harvey -
I always knew I wanted to be a writer.
Karen Kingsbury -
I know that one of the great arts that the writer develops is the art of saying, 'No. No, I'm finished. Bye.' And leaving it alone. I will not write it into the ground. I will not write the life out of it. I won't do that.
Maya Angelou
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If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair.
Samuel Johnson -
I don't play well enough to be allowed to throw my clubs.
Lou Holtz -
Every time I catch myself saying, "Oh no, you shouldn't try that," I think, "Yes, I should."
Erica Jong -
Home, nowadays, is a place where part of the family waits till the rest of the family brings the car back.
Earl Wilson -
The keyhole is my lens as a writer.
Nelson Rodrigues