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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Lizzy Weiss is such a great writer, and she really writes for the performances.
Vanessa Marano -
Never underestimate those who you scar.
Lauryn Hill Fugees -
Medicine involves dealing with people who are going through changes and cycles, often people trapped in bodies that are going out from under them. Spending time with them lets you think their way, gives you insights as a writer.
Ethan Canin -
If you don't want to be the biggest band in the world, you may as well pack it in.
Noel Gallagher Oasis -
Never underestimate the narcissism of a writer.
Elia Kazan