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 was a writer for hire. I wrote to pay the bills.
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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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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 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.
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The beginning of human knowledge is through the senses, and the fiction writer begins where the human perception begins. He appeals through the senses, and you cannot appeal through the senses with abstractions.
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What I always wanted to get seen as was as a good actor, when it was the acting I was doing. When I'm writing, I want to try to be seen as a good writer.
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Clever talk and domineering manner have little to with being a Man at His Best.
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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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Common knowledge, but important nonetheless
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A writer who can't write in a grammerly manner better shut up shop.
