Bert Sugar Quotes
Ask a writer what he thinks about critics and the answer you get is similar to what you get when you ask a lamppost how he feels about dogs.
Quotes to Explore
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In the movies, the writer is just the servant, the employee.
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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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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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Well I could have been just a writer. I had been a hair dresser. I could have stuck with that.
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Men are dogs. Men are dogs. We got to stop it. Men are not dogs. Uh-uh. Dogs are loyal.
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If a writer doesn't generate hostility, he is dead.
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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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The greater part of critics are parasites, who, if nothing had been written, would find nothing to write.
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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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My job is to notice echoes and notice resonances. Scientists are not supposed to do the same thing that cultural critics do.
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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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Critics don't buy records. They get 'em free.
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I am the kind of writer that people think other people are reading.
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I don't look at myself as a writer; I am a storyteller.
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I haven't given any thought to collaborating with my sisters. It would be great fun. My daughter Molly is a wonderful writer - someday I'd love to collaborate with her.
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The media wants overnight successes (so they have someone to tear down). Ignore them. Ignore the early adopter critics that never have enough to play with. Ignore your investors that want proven tactics and predictable instant results. Listen instead to your real customers, to your vision and make something for the long haul. Because that's how long it's going to take, guys.
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Make yourself honey and the flies will devour you.
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The thing you have to be prepared for is that other people don't always dream your dream.
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Maybe everyone loves differently. Maybe that’s all that matters.
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Ask a writer what he thinks about critics and the answer you get is similar to what you get when you ask a lamppost how he feels about dogs.
