Edgar Allan Poe Quotes
The writer who neglects punctuation, or mispunctuates, is liable to be misunderstood for the want of merely a comma, it often occurs that an axiom appears a paradox, or that a sarcasm is converted into a sermonoid.
Quotes to Explore
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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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I am not an autobiographical writer.
Yann Martel
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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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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'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
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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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I didn't know how to be a writer. But I thought, 'I can do this.'
Karen Robards
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I'm a very conceptual writer.
Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty
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I am the kind of writer that people think other people are reading.
V. S. Naipaul
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When somebody asks what I do, I guess I say 'writer' first.
Ilana Glazer
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Time to a writer is like play dough in the hands of a toddler.
Barry Lane
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By the age of four one has experienced nearly everything one needs to be a writer of fiction; love, pain, loss, boredom, rage, guilt and fear of death.
Nicholas Delbanco
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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
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Nothing in the world can be more exciting than to create something and see it work.
Paloma Picasso
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The writer who neglects punctuation, or mispunctuates, is liable to be misunderstood for the want of merely a comma, it often occurs that an axiom appears a paradox, or that a sarcasm is converted into a sermonoid.
Edgar Allan Poe