V. S. Naipaul Quotes
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What other grown-up gets told how to do their job so often as a writer?
Rachel Cusk -
In the movies, the writer is just the servant, the employee.
Salman Rushdie -
I am not an autobiographical writer.
Yann Martel -
It is time for dead languages to be quiet.
Natalie Clifford Barney -
I've basically worked as a journalist and a writer.
Laura Moser -
Unbeing dead isn't being alive.
e. e. cummings
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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 -
Museums are for dead artists. I'd never show my work in the Tate. You'd never get me in that place.
Damien Hirst -
Well I could have been just a writer. I had been a hair dresser. I could have stuck with that.
Fran Drescher -
I developed an optical lure that imitates certain types of bioluminescent displays that I think might be attractive to large predators. The other way to do it is just use dead bait, but I think dead bait attracts scavengers, and we wanted to attract active predators.
Edith Widder -
If Woody Allen were a Muslim, he'd be dead by now.
Salman Rushdie -
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
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In 'Shaun of the Dead,' it's not Shaun's fault that there's a zombie apocalypse - he just has to get through the day.
Edgar Wright -
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 -
I still relate to my father very much. I mean, I talk to him in a certain way, as we do talk to the dead.
Daniel Day-Lewis -
The 1910 Edison film of 'Frankenstein' was itself a dead thing revived by technology.
Kage Baker -
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
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I imagined being a famous writer would be like being like Jane Austen.
Joanne Rowling -
I'm not a great writer.
E. L. James -
If you don't know what color to take, take black.
Pablo Picasso -
I'm a very big Notorious B.I.G. fan and I do an imitation of him that always cracks everybody up.
Gene Ween -
If a writer doesn't generate hostility, he is dead.
V. S. Naipaul