Elia Kazan Quotes
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What other grown-up gets told how to do their job so often as a writer?
Rachel Cusk -
In the movies, the writer is just the servant, the employee.
Salman Rushdie -
I am not an autobiographical writer.
Yann Martel -
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 -
I've basically worked as a journalist and a writer.
Laura Moser -
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 -
Well I could have been just a writer. I had been a hair dresser. I could have stuck with that.
Fran Drescher -
If a writer doesn't generate hostility, he is dead.
V. S. Naipaul -
A writer has to live with a sense of honor.
Irwin Shaw -
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 -
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 -
I imagined being a famous writer would be like being like Jane Austen.
Joanne Rowling -
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 -
There are three things that make a person a writer: inspiration, perspiration and desperation.
Harlan Coben -
I'm not a great writer.
E. L. James -
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.
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I wouldn't be a writer if I couldn't tell the truth.
Jenny Mollen -
Nothing is as embarrassing as watching your boss do something you assured him couldn't be done.
Earl Wilson -
All effort at originality must end either in the quaint or the monstrous. For no man knows himself as an original; he can only believe it on the report of others.
Washington Allston -
The single most important thing in a child's performance is the quality of the teacher. Making sure a child spends the maximum amount of time with inspirational teachers is the most important thing.
Michael Gove -
Never underestimate the narcissism of a writer.
Elia Kazan