Writer Quotes
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I always knew I wanted to be a writer.
Karen Kingsbury -
As an artist, as an actor, as a writer, you have to use what's personal to you. You have to be personal about your work; otherwise, it doesn't ring true.
Alan Alda
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I am the worlds laziest writer.
Oscar Peterson -
My publisher, who was so good as a taster and editor, when she became a writer, lo and behold, it was all this feminine tosh.
V. S. Naipaul -
I've basically worked as a journalist and a writer.
Laura Moser -
If a writer doesn't generate hostility, he is dead.
V. S. Naipaul -
Doors lead to things and I've never met one I haven't wanted to open.
Kate Morton -
The important thing is to do what you most love in the best way. If you love literature, you could be a great writer and perhaps one day become a Nobel Prize Laureate for Literature.
Aaron Ciechanover
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Motown was the mecca. It was every writer's dream to work there.
Valerie Simpson -
The writer is the engineer of the human soul.
Joseph Stalin -
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 -
Like every Southern writer, I thought that I needed to write the next 'Gone With the Wind.'
Karin Slaughter -
Memory is not particularly linear - it is associative, repetitive, subjective and porous. But the writer needs to convey disorder and dysfunction without making the novel itself disorderly or dysfunctional.
Dana Spiotta -
In my experience an appreciative letter from a fellow writer means a lot.
Ian Mcewan
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I'm good at being by myself. I guess if you're a writer you get used to that.
Chuck Klosterman -
Don’t ask a writer what he’s working on. It’s like asking someone with cancer on the progress of his disease.
Amy Lowell -
It's very hard to be a gentleman and a writer.
W. Somerset Maugham -
The writer has the advantage of a medium that can be contemplated many times over on the pages of a book or a magazine. The words lie on the page and the writer has an extended opportunity to imprint on his reader every meaning and nuance distilled from experience.
Bienvenido Lumbera -
If you would be a reader, read; if a writer, write.
Epictetus -
I always felt that I was a writer, that was what I had to do.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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I am not a director or a writer, but a filmmaker.
Frances McDormand -
I am more of a suspense writer. A mystery writer solves mysteries. I am a 'high suspense' writer.
Iris Johansen -
TV writing is different than other mediums, involving the writer.
Tom Skerritt -
There is no writer's block in a newsroom. There's only unemployment block.
Carl Hiaasen