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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If you wait for inspiration to write you're not a writer, you're a waiter.
Dan Poynter
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The writer must resist this temptation to quote and do his best with his own tools. It would be most convenient for us musicians if, arrived at a given emotional crisis in our work, we could simply stick in a few bars of Brahms or Schubert. Indeed many composers have no hesitation in so doing. But I have never heard the practice defended; possibly because that hideous symbol of petty larceny, the inverted comma, cannot well be worked into a musical score.
Ethel Smyth
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When a writer develops a story, he is confronted with a poison that is inside him. If you don't have that poison, your story will be boring and uninspired. It's like fugu: The flesh of the pufferfish is extremely tasty, but the roe, the liver, the heart can be lethally toxic.
Haruki Murakami
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How much unbelief exists in the minds of the Latter-day Saints in regard to one particular doctrine which I revealed to them, and which God revealed to me - namely that Adam is our Father and God-.
Brigham Young
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I was never a writer.
Simon Sinek