Brett Gelman Quotes

Andrew Gurland is so precise and, again, such an amazing writer, but then he's also really honest with himself and what he is seeing.

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• What other grown-up gets told how to do their job so often as a writer?

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • Up
  • Job
  • Writer

• I am not an autobiographical writer.

  

  Yann Martel
  • Writer
  • Autobiographical

• 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
  • Way
  • Me
  • Writer

• I've basically worked as a journalist and a writer.

  

  Laura Moser
  • Writer
  • Worked
  • Journalist

• If a writer doesn't generate hostility, he is dead.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Writer
  • Dead
  • Hostility

• A writer has to live with a sense of honor.

  

  Irwin Shaw
  • Live
  • Honor
  • Writer

• I was just as voracious a writer as I was a reader.

  

  Iris Johansen
  • Writer
  • Just
  • Reader

• Every writer uses his own way to motivate oneself.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
  • Way
  • Writer
  • Own

• 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
  • Work
  • Inspiration
  • Blessed

• 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
  • Famous
  • Writer
  • Literary

• There are three things that make a person a writer: inspiration, perspiration and desperation.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Inspiration
  • Writer
  • Three

• If you are a good writer - and I think I am - you are able to handle any kind of group and imagine their lives.

  

  Earl Hamner, Jr.
  • Kind
  • Writer
  • Lives

• 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
  • Music
  • Freedom
  • Chance

• I am the kind of writer that people think other people are reading.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • People
  • Reading
  • Writer

• When somebody asks what I do, I guess I say 'writer' first.

  

  Ilana Glazer
  • First
  • Say
  • Writer

• 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
  • Artist
  • Person
  • Regret

• There is no writer's block in a newsroom. There's only unemployment block.

  

  Carl Hiaasen
  • Writer
  • Only
  • Unemployment

• I'm hesitant to ever take on the crest of the veteran. So I don't know who I am to warn the younger writer about the perils to come. I think maybe the most dangerous influence is to think you have all the answers and should be giving counsel.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Influence
  • Writer
  • Dangerous

• I'm not an autobiographical writer, but I am a writer who deals with human emotion on all levels.

  

  P. J. Harvey
  • Human
  • Emotion
  • Writer

• I first knew Laurie Lewis by her considerable reputation as a fiddle player and a writer of songs. When an opportunity came along to sing with her I seized it. Getting to know her as a singer and a person has been pure pleasure. Her voice is a rare combination of grit and grace, strength and delicacy. Her stories are always true.

  

  Linda Ronstadt
  • True
  • Opportunity
  • Player

• Opinion polls are not worth the paper they are written on, in my view, through the conference season. They don't settle down again until November.

  

  Norman Tebbit
  • Opinion
  • November
  • Settling

• My family, frankly, they weren't folks who went to church every week. My mother was one of the most spiritual people I knew but she didn't raise me in the church, so I came to my Christian faith later in life and it was because the precepts of Jesus Christ spoke to me in terms of the kind of life that I would want to lead.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Life
  • Family

• Andrew Gurland is so precise and, again, such an amazing writer, but then he's also really honest with himself and what he is seeing.

  

  Brett Gelman
  • Writer
  • Andrew Gurland