Gabriel Garcia Marquez Quotes
A famous writer who wants to continue writing has to be constantly defending himself against fame.Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Quotes to Explore
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What other grown-up gets told how to do their job so often as a writer?
Rachel Cusk -
I am not an autobiographical writer.
Yann Martel -
I've basically worked as a journalist and a writer.
Laura Moser -
I will calmly wait for my induction to the Baseball Hall of Fame. Don't I have the numbers to be inducted?
Sammy Sosa -
The fame thing is interesting because I never wanted to be famous, and I never dreamt I would be famous.
Joanne Rowling -
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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Fame and stardom sat very easily on Elizabeth Taylor's shoulders.
Francesca Annis -
I've been in the public eye now for about 15 or 16 years, and I'm very aware that fame is not a given. I have to maintain it. It's not just something that will always be there. But I've always been a worker. I've never expected be given anything.
Victoria Beckham Spice Girls -
I was a writer for hire. I wrote to pay the bills.
Damien Chazelle -
Well I could have been just a writer. I had been a hair dresser. I could have stuck with that.
Fran Drescher -
I don't have a craving for money. And I don't have a craving for fame.
Damien Rice -
It seems that the fiction writer has a revolting attachment to the poor, for even when he writes about the rich, he is more concerned with what they lack than with what they have.
Flannery O'Connor
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Slowly but surely, I went through different phases of fame, and each rises you further into isolation and alienation.
T. J. Miller -
I was just as voracious a writer as I was a reader.
Iris Johansen -
Every writer uses his own way to motivate oneself.
Rabih Alameddine -
In journalism, we recognize a kind of hierarchy of fame among the famous. We measure it in two ways: by the length of an obituary and by how far in advance it is prepared. Presidents, former presidents, and certain heads of state are at the top of the chain.
Walter Cronkite -
Al Kaline bought a tee and a ball and swung at it all winter. Look where it got him: the Hall of Fame.
Hal Newhouser -
Andy Warhol made fame more famous.
Fran Lebowitz
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Fame is the thirst of youth.
Lord Byron -
I did a song in eight minutes. I thought everybody could write songs that fast. But working with a lot of them, they don't.
Young Thug -
Our parents provided us with the essentials, then got on with their own lives. Which makes me realise that my parents were brilliant, not for what they did, but more for what they didn't do.
Rachel Johnson -
telling the truth about children's lives is radical.
Lucille Clifton -
A famous writer who wants to continue writing has to be constantly defending himself against fame.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez