Haruki Murakami Quotes
I could have been a cult writer if I'd kept writing surrealistic novels. But I wanted to break into the mainstream, so I had to prove that I could write a realistic book.
Quotes to Explore
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What other grown-up gets told how to do their job so often as a writer?
Rachel Cusk
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So many Indian novels, quite unfairly, do not get the prominence they should because they have been written in a language other than English.
Vikram Seth
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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
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I love writing journalism because it's all over in two hours and comes straight off the top of the head. Writing novels is soooooo much harder. It's the hardest thing I've ever done.
Rachel Johnson
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Wherever I am, I take books, not novels.
Caprice Bourret
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I was a writer for hire. I wrote to pay the bills.
Damien Chazelle
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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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I also read modern novels - I have just had to read 60 as I am one of the judges for the Orange Fiction Prize.
Kate Adie
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If a writer doesn't generate hostility, he is dead.
V. S. Naipaul
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I was just as voracious a writer as I was a reader.
Iris Johansen
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With my songs I tried to prove that there is love.
Nana Mouskouri
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There are three things that make a person a writer: inspiration, perspiration and desperation.
Harlan Coben
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I'm not a great writer.
E. L. James
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When I was a little boy, they called me a liar, but now that I am grown up, they call me a writer.
Isaac Bashevis Singer
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I am the kind of writer that people think other people are reading.
V. S. Naipaul
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When somebody asks what I do, I guess I say 'writer' first.
Ilana Glazer
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I haven't given any thought to collaborating with my sisters. It would be great fun. My daughter Molly is a wonderful writer - someday I'd love to collaborate with her.
Hallie Ephron
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My favorite short-story writer is John Cheever.
Irwin Shaw
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I think you’re hard pressed to find another group that had as many facets to them as we did, and going through the songs now there’s an unlimited variety of everything from quasi showtunes to fake speed metal. God almighty, what were we trying to prove?
Paul Westerberg The Replacements
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The 'information novel' shouldn't be a curiosity. It should be absolutely mainstream.
Richard Powers
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Should we continue to spend billions to subsidize foreign military dictatorships, or should we concentrate on taking better care of the one we have right here at home?
Pat Paulsen
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Chicken Little change my life when I was younger. I had no idea chickens could talk *laughs*.
Thomas Edward Yorke Atoms for Peace
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I could have been a cult writer if I'd kept writing surrealistic novels. But I wanted to break into the mainstream, so I had to prove that I could write a realistic book.
Haruki Murakami