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 -
I am not an autobiographical writer.
Yann Martel -
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 -
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 -
Well I could have been just a writer. I had been a hair dresser. I could have stuck with that.
Fran Drescher -
A writer has to live with a sense of honor.
Irwin Shaw
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Every writer uses his own way to motivate oneself.
Rabih Alameddine -
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 -
I didn't know how to be a writer. But I thought, 'I can do this.'
Karen Robards -
I'm a very conceptual writer.
Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty -
I am the kind of writer that people think other people are reading.
V. S. Naipaul -
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 -
I'm not an autobiographical writer, but I am a writer who deals with human emotion on all levels.
P. J. Harvey -
I always knew I wanted to be a writer.
Karen Kingsbury -
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 -
The best author will be the one who is ashamed to become a writer.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
I first knew Laurie Lewis by her considerable reputation as a fiddle player and a writer of songs. When an opportunity came along to sing with her I seized it. Getting to know her as a singer and a person has been pure pleasure. Her voice is a rare combination of grit and grace, strength and delicacy. Her stories are always true.
Linda Ronstadt
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Believe it or not, in 1969 the French writer Georges Perec wrote a palindromic story that was 500 words long! The whole story reads the same backwards as forwards.
Ursula Dubosarsky -
I'm not a good rapper. For whatever reason, my brain does not work that way. I just do the beginning, like, 'Yeah, yeah! Ha ha! Woo! What up? Come on! Get at me!' I'm Captain Hook.
Adam DeVine -
I have a lot of respect for the British people and the passion which they have for football, the full stadiums.
Ivan Rakitić -
My mom has been my support system from day one. Admiring the type of person she is gives me a sense of what to look for in my ideal cheerleader when the time comes.
OMI -
I was never a writer.
Simon Sinek