Edwin Percy Whipple Quotes
The familiar writer is apt to be his own satirist. Out of his own mouth is he judged.
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I am not an autobiographical writer.
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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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One's past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged.
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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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I was a writer for hire. I wrote to pay the bills.
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If a writer doesn't generate hostility, he is dead.
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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.
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I was just as voracious a writer as I was a reader.
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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.
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Societies should be judged by how they treat the weakest among them.
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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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When I was a little boy, they called me a liar, but now that I am grown up, they call me a writer.
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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.
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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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I don't look at myself as a writer; I am a storyteller.
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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.
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A writer lives, at best, in a state of astonishment.
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It's only the immortal thing that a man can be judged on, that bit of himself that he makes as he does the best he can with what fate handed out to him.
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I don't think that work ever really destroyed anybody. I think that lack of work destroys them a hell of a lot more.
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Being in your element is not only about aptitude, it's about passion: it is about loving what you do...tapping into your natural energy and your most authentic self.
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The young are so old, they are born with their fingers crossed.
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The familiar writer is apt to be his own satirist. Out of his own mouth is he judged.
