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
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In the movies, the writer is just the servant, the employee.
Salman Rushdie
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I am not an autobiographical writer.
Yann Martel
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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.
E. L. Doctorow
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I've basically worked as a journalist and a writer.
Laura Moser
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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.
Hannah Kent
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I was a writer for hire. I wrote to pay the bills.
Damien Chazelle
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Well I could have been just a writer. I had been a hair dresser. I could have stuck with that.
Fran Drescher
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If a writer doesn't generate hostility, he is dead.
V. S. Naipaul
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A writer has to live with a sense of honor.
Irwin Shaw
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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.
Flannery O'Connor
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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
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I imagined being a famous writer would be like being like Jane Austen.
Joanne Rowling
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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.
M. J. Hyland
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There are three things that make a person a writer: inspiration, perspiration and desperation.
Harlan Coben
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I'm not a great writer.
E. L. James
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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.
Earl Hamner, Jr.
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There are airmen and there are pilots: the first being part bird whose view from aloft is normal and comfortable, a creature whose brain and muscles frequently originate movements which suggest flight; and then there are pilots who regardless of their airborne time remain earth-loving bipeds forever. When these latter unfortunates, because of one urge or another, actually make an ascension, they neither anticipate nor relish the event and they drive their machines with the same graceless labor they inflict upon the family vehicle.
Ernest K. Gann
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Binge viewing has been around since DVD box sets.
Dana Brunetti
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Red Interactive, the digital advertising agency, is a real, systemic kind of business, as opposed to a one-off thing. We can help advertisers frustrated by old media find clients they can work with.
Patrick Whitesell
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Never underestimate the narcissism of a writer.
Elia Kazan