Artemas Ward 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 am not an autobiographical writer.
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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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I was just as voracious a writer as I was a reader.
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Every writer uses his own way to motivate oneself.
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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.
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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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I'm not a great 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'm a very conceptual writer.
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I am the kind of writer that people think other people are reading.
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When somebody asks what I do, I guess I say 'writer' first.
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My favorite short-story writer is John Cheever.
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I'm not an autobiographical writer, but I am a writer who deals with human emotion on all levels.
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I always knew I wanted to be a writer.
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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.
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I consider myself a writer, foremost - a nonfiction writer.
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To be a great actor you just need to comprehend, so that's why I became a writer.
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My faith informs everything I think and do. It's part of my value system.
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To disagree, one doesn't have to be disagreeable.
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A writer who can't write in a grammerly manner better shut up shop.
