Laura Moser Quotes
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In the movies, the writer is just the servant, the employee.
Salman Rushdie -
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 -
I was a writer for hire. I wrote to pay the bills.
Damien Chazelle -
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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If a writer doesn't generate hostility, he is dead.
V. S. Naipaul -
A writer has to live with a sense of honor.
Irwin Shaw -
It seems that the fiction writer has a revolting attachment to the poor, for even when he writes about the rich, he is more concerned with what they lack than with what they have.
Flannery O'Connor -
I was just as voracious a writer as I was a reader.
Iris Johansen -
Every writer uses his own way to motivate oneself.
Rabih Alameddine -
For somebody who is a journalist, I can be awfully unobservant sometimes.
Patricia Marx
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I'm not a writer where I feel particularly blessed by great inspiration every day. I don't. I have to work really hard at it to try and say the things I'm concerned with.
P. J. Harvey -
I imagined being a famous writer would be like being like Jane Austen.
Joanne Rowling -
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.
Karan Mahajan -
I've never experienced writer's block. When it's going really well, my body temperature goes up, and I'm flushed. I get quite delirious.
M. J. Hyland -
There are three things that make a person a writer: inspiration, perspiration and desperation.
Harlan Coben -
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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The real writer is one who really writes. Talent is an invention like phlogiston after the fact of fire. Work is its own cure. You have to like it better than being loved.
Marge Piercy -
I think trying to be offbeat is the most boring thing possible.
Beck -
Taxi drivers used to ask me what kind of music I did, and I'd say, 'Well, it's kind of jazz, soul, classical' - but that makes no sense to anyone.
Laura Mvula -
I now have faith in those who say they represent a faith. Whereas before I was like, 'Do not give me a lecture on how to live my life when I know I'm a pretty decent human being. I might not go to church every day, but I know I do the right thing or try to. You're going to church and you're still sleeping around on your wife and spending everyone's money. How are you better than I am?' So I've finally met people that walk the walk and it's made me happy, really happy.
Sandra Bullock -
The Tea Party isolated Mitt Romney from mainstream voters, linking him to a rabid ideology that he could not shake as he desperately tried to move to the middle in the closing weeks of the campaign. Lesson: The loudest voices don't often command the votes needed to win in November.
Eliot Spitzer -
I've basically worked as a journalist and a writer.
Laura Moser