Writer Quotes
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In Chicago, if you tell someone you're a writer, they look at you suspiciously - as if to say "yeah, right." In New York, people don't question the idea. If you say you're a writer, that's what you are.
Elaine Equi
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Before I became a writer, I was running a jazz bar in the center of Tokyo, which means that I worked in filthy air all the time late into the night. I was very excited when I started making a living out of my writing, and I decided, 'I will live in nothing but an absolutely healthy way.'
Haruki Murakami
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Margot Hentoff was an editor there for a time as well as a writer.
Nat Hentoff
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I think Bellow's the greatest American writer of his century, personally. When I read him, I'm in awe.
Ethan Canin
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I think the one reason that writers marry other writers - one of the reasons that I married another writer - was, I fell in love with that writer. But second of all, I had been married before and a source of marital strife was me needing to go away for a couple of weeks to write or it's Saturday and I think I just need to work today and not hang out with you.
Heidi Julavits
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Andrew Gurland is so precise and, again, such an amazing writer, but then he's also really honest with himself and what he is seeing.
Brett Gelman