Simon Sinek Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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What other grown-up gets told how to do their job so often as a writer?
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I am not an autobiographical writer.
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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.
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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.
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Well I could have been just a writer. I had been a hair dresser. I could have stuck with that.
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A writer has to live with a sense of honor.
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I was just as voracious a writer as I was a reader.
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Every writer uses his own way to motivate oneself.
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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.
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I didn't know how to be a writer. But I thought, 'I can do this.'
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I'm a very conceptual writer.
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I am the kind of writer that people think other people are reading.
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Lizzy Weiss is such a great writer, and she really writes for the performances.
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I'm hesitant to ever take on the crest of the veteran. So I don't know who I am to warn the younger writer about the perils to come. I think maybe the most dangerous influence is to think you have all the answers and should be giving counsel.
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I'm not an autobiographical writer, but I am a writer who deals with human emotion on all levels.
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I always knew I wanted to be a writer.
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I know that one of the great arts that the writer develops is the art of saying, 'No. No, I'm finished. Bye.' And leaving it alone. I will not write it into the ground. I will not write the life out of it. I won't do that.
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The best author will be the one who is ashamed to become a writer.
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Everybody did something. It was very entertaining. We had a lot of fun. Lot of fun. And there was no segregation, that I could see. I never saw any.
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A fly, Sir, may sting a stately horse and make him wince; but, one is but an insect, and the other is a horse still.
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Social media is a giant distraction to the ultimate aim, which is honing your craft as a songwriter. There are people who are exceptional at it, however, and if you can do both things, then that's fantastic, but if you are a writer, the time is better spent on a clever lyric than a clever tweet.
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I was never a writer.
