Laura Moser Quotes
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In the movies, the writer is just the servant, the employee.
Salman Rushdie -
I am not an autobiographical writer.
Yann Martel -
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 always knew I wanted to be a writer. I just wasn't sure what I wanted to do as a money-making job.
Hannah Kent -
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
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If a writer doesn't generate hostility, he is dead.
V. S. Naipaul -
A writer has to live with a sense of honor.
Irwin Shaw -
It seems that the fiction writer has a revolting attachment to the poor, for even when he writes about the rich, he is more concerned with what they lack than with what they have.
Flannery O'Connor -
I was just as voracious a writer as I was a reader.
Iris Johansen -
Every writer uses his own way to motivate oneself.
Rabih Alameddine -
For somebody who is a journalist, I can be awfully unobservant sometimes.
Patricia Marx
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I'm not a writer where I feel particularly blessed by great inspiration every day. I don't. I have to work really hard at it to try and say the things I'm concerned with.
P. J. Harvey -
I imagined being a famous writer would be like being like Jane Austen.
Joanne Rowling -
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 -
I've never experienced writer's block. When it's going really well, my body temperature goes up, and I'm flushed. I get quite delirious.
M. J. Hyland -
There are three things that make a person a writer: inspiration, perspiration and desperation.
Harlan Coben -
If you are a good writer - and I think I am - you are able to handle any kind of group and imagine their lives.
Earl Hamner, Jr.
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He the writer must, teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid; and, teaching himself that, forget it forever, leaving no room in his workshop for anything but the old verities and truths of the heart, the old universal truths lacking which any story is ephemeral and doomed - love and honor and pity and compassion and sacrifice. See Poets & Writers.
William Faulkner -
To be a writer and political is a dangerous thing. To be a writer and apolitical is even more dangerous. Art is right, left; in truth, it has only one direction and that is forward.
Chris Campanioni -
I see women in their 30s getting plastic surgery, pulling this up and tucking that back. It's like a slippery slope - once you start you pull one thing one way and then you think, 'Oh my God, I've got to do the other side.'
Halle Berry -
I want to describe the psychological state of the people in a certain city.
Orhan Pamuk -
We're all the harshest judges of ourselves.
Susan Anton -
I've basically worked as a journalist and a writer.
Laura Moser