Simon Sinek Quotes
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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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I am not an autobiographical writer.
Yann Martel
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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 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
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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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A writer has to live with a sense of honor.
Irwin Shaw
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I was just as voracious a writer as I was a reader.
Iris Johansen
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Every writer uses his own way to motivate oneself.
Rabih Alameddine
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If you are a good writer - and I think I am - you are able to handle any kind of group and imagine their lives.
Earl Hamner, Jr.
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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 didn't know how to be a writer. But I thought, 'I can do this.'
Karen Robards
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I'm a very conceptual writer.
Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty
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I am the kind of writer that people think other people are reading.
V. S. Naipaul
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Lizzy Weiss is such a great writer, and she really writes for the performances.
Vanessa Marano
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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.
Rachel Kushner
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I'm not an autobiographical writer, but I am a writer who deals with human emotion on all levels.
P. J. Harvey
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I always knew I wanted to be a writer.
Karen Kingsbury
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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.
Maya Angelou
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I never did write a biography, and I don't exactly know how to set about it; you see I have to be accurate and keep to the facts, a most difficult thing for a writer of fiction.
Elizabeth Gaskell
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I wrote about the life of a housing officer in Britain, in a pretty rough area of London. Maybe it was because I'm a big-mouth and an exhibitionist, and I'm slightly egotistical. All those things have to come together for a writer.
Ben Richards
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New-season lamb shoulder, cooked pink, is the perfect platform for a mixture of fresh and cooked herbs.
Yotam Ottolenghi
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In L.A., it's easy to get wrapped up in this young Hollywood mess. You feel like you have to go out every night. You have to realize that you're here to work. I didn't move out here to party all the time.
Taylor Spreitler
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The tea party had a lot of nasty tactics that were needlessly aggressive and petty and scary. But they proved it is indeed possible for a committed, relatively small number of folks across the country to make Congress listen to them and to slow and stop an agenda.
Ezra G. Levin
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I was never a writer.
Simon Sinek