William Faulkner Quotes
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What other grown-up gets told how to do their job so often as a writer?
Rachel Cusk
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In the movies, the writer is just the servant, the employee.
Salman Rushdie
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I am not an autobiographical writer.
Yann Martel
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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.
E. L. Doctorow
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I've basically worked as a journalist and a writer.
Laura Moser
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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.
Hannah Kent
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I was a writer for hire. I wrote to pay the bills.
Damien Chazelle
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A writer has to live with a sense of honor.
Irwin Shaw
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I was just as voracious a writer as I was a reader.
Iris Johansen
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Every writer uses his own way to motivate oneself.
Rabih Alameddine
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I imagined being a famous writer would be like being like Jane Austen.
Joanne Rowling
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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.
Karan Mahajan
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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
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There are three things that make a person a writer: inspiration, perspiration and desperation.
Harlan Coben
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I'm not a great writer.
E. L. James
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I'm a very conceptual writer.
Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty
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I am the kind of writer that people think other people are reading.
V. S. Naipaul
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I don't go around thinking about regret; regret doesn't consume me as a person... I'm not certain about whether any writer, any artist, any musician, can write without regret, so I don't think perhaps it's even particularly Southern.
Barry Hannah
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The best author will be the one who is ashamed to become a writer.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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If a single writer in a country is in chains, then there are some links of that chain that binds us all.
Vaclav Havel
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There's a myth that free-to-play is cheaper than a $60 game. It's just elastic. For some users, it winds up being a lot more expensive. I would have paid $150 a year to get a better version of FIFA.
Mitch Lasky
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I've done fine in this business, but I've never made quite enough money to have a family or have many options.
Larry Drake
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Nothing in the world can be more exciting than to create something and see it work.
Paloma Picasso
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In every writer there is a certain amount of the scavenger.
William Faulkner