Nelson Rodrigues Quotes
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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 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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The lens of contract focuses predominantly on gains from trade whereas orthodoxy is focused on resource allocation.
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I've basically worked as a journalist and a writer.
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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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I was a writer for hire. I wrote to pay the bills.
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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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When you've finished reading every last thing by a famous writer, literary convention holds that you move on to his or her letters, the DVD extras peddled by publishers.
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There are three things that make a person a writer: inspiration, perspiration and desperation.
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I'm not a great writer.
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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.
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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 don't look at myself as a writer; I am a storyteller.
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When somebody asks what I do, I guess I say 'writer' first.
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I don't go around thinking about regret; regret doesn't consume me as a person... I'm not certain about whether any writer, any artist, any musician, can write without regret, so I don't think perhaps it's even particularly Southern.
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My favorite short-story writer is John Cheever.
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Dumbledore had not raised his voice, he did not even sound angry, but Harry would have preferred him to yell; this cold disappointment was worse than anything.
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How much more of an injustice is it that people who work get more money than people who don't work?
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To know enough about things is one prerequisite for having wonderful ideas.
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Polls suggest that more and more, opposition to Obamacare is based on voters' personal experience, and not just on what they have heard or read about the law.
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The keyhole is my lens as a writer.
