Writer Quotes
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I wouldn't buy somebody's album on a dare if they called him a musician's musician. I don't write to be a writer's writer. I don't want to be like the little-magazine writer.
Barry Hannah -
The beginning of human knowledge is through the senses, and the fiction writer begins where the human perception begins. He appeals through the senses, and you cannot appeal through the senses with abstractions.
Flannery O'Connor
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Mo Yan is the Chinese equivalent of the Soviet Russian apparatchik writer Mikhail Sholokhov: a patsy of the regime.
Salman Rushdie -
I am a writer. Being critical is a writer's responsibility.
Ma Jian -
My favorite short-story writer is John Cheever.
Irwin Shaw -
Given that external reality is a fiction, the writer's role is almost superfluous. He does not need to invent the fiction because it is already there.
J. G. Ballard -
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 -
The writer is all alone.
V. S. Naipaul
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There are actors who can pull of a writer's lines; I am not competent enough to do that.
Salman Khan -
'SNL' doesn't have a traditional writer's room. On Monday, there's the pitch meeting with the guest, and I played that like it was stand-up.
Hannibal Buress -
The creative writer does the same as the child at play; he creates a world of fantasy which he takes very seriously.
Sigmund Freud -
Well I could have been just a writer. I had been a hair dresser. I could have stuck with that.
Fran Drescher -
I've always been a reader and a writer.
Laini Taylor -
Every writer uses his own way to motivate oneself.
Rabih Alameddine
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I'm a writer more than I am a talker.
Wendell Berry -
A writer without a reader doesn't exist.
Harlan Coben -
Creative non-fiction is such a liberating genre because it allows the non-fiction writer, whether he or she be journalist or essayist, to use all of the techniques of the fiction writer and all of the ideas, creative approaches, that fiction writers get a chance to use, but they have to use it in a true story.
Lee Gutkind -
I think I became a writer because I didn't know of anything else to do. Maybe some incident from my childhood influenced me.
Patrick Modiano -
I can work as a writer, but I wanted to do stand-up.
Hannibal Buress -
I'm not a good photographer, not a good writer. I'm a pretty regular person whose insecurity is so pervasive that it makes me always feel vulnerable.
Sally Mann
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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 -
The most annoying and full-of-crap thing a writer says is, 'I write only for myself, I don't care if anyone reads it.' A writer without a reader doesn't exist.
Harlan Coben -
I was always a writer – working on campaigns was never a profession for me. It was something I did on the side, really, so the trajectory hasn't been a political operative who likes to dabble in writing and finds himself into stumbling on film and TV – that was always my goal.
Beau Willimon -
I know I am a writer; it is the only thing I am sure of.
Oriana Fallaci