Bernice Rubens Quotes
If you're a writer there will come at least one morning in your life when you wake up and want to kill your agent.Bernice Rubens
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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 -
Every writer uses his own way to motivate oneself.
Rabih Alameddine -
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 -
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 -
Music is where I have the most creative freedom, but I love producing. To me, that's kind of where all the action is. You get a chance to have your hands in every aspect of a film. From picking a director, sometimes picking a writer, to the actors, the wardrobe, set design, editing, music, and marketing.
Ice Cube
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I am the kind of writer that people think other people are reading.
V. S. Naipaul -
When somebody asks what I do, I guess I say 'writer' first.
Ilana Glazer -
There is no writer's block in a newsroom. There's only unemployment block.
Carl Hiaasen -
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 -
Truth is too important to kill it in the streets for the sake of peace.
R. C. Sproul
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To kill nothing, that is love.
A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada -
His style is chaos illumined by flashes of lightning. As a writer he has mastered everything except language.
Oscar Wilde -
There will be some trouble about 'biography' because I have never troubled myself to supply particulars of my early life to any writer.
Arthur Wing Pinero -
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 -
If you love people, they kill you. If you need people, they kill you. They do I tell you!
Colleen McCullough -
A writer will write with or without a movement; but at the same time, for Chicano, lesbian, gay and feminist writers-anybody writing against the grain of Anglo misogynist culture-political movements are what have allowed our writing to surface from the secret places in our notebooks into the public sphere.
Cherrie Moraga
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A painter paints, a musician plays, a writer writes - but a movie actor waits.
Mary Astor -
If God were suddenly condemned to live the life which He has inflicted upon men, He would kill Himself.
Alexandre Dumas -
When I was young, I kept trying to read 'Moby-Dick', and I couldn't get that far into it. And I kept thinking, 'Well, man, if I can't read the great American novel, I could never be a writer.' And this bothered me a great deal.
Nick Tosches -
I am left with the conviction that an avalanche would be easier to dissuade than that man.
Robin LaFevers -
If you're a writer there will come at least one morning in your life when you wake up and want to kill your agent.
Bernice Rubens