Writer Quotes
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I always was an early-morning or late-night writer. Early morning was my favorite; late night was because you had a deadline. And at four in the morning, you make up some of your most absurd jokes.
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Life can't defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life itself is a writer's lover until death.
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They are always asking a writer why he does not write like somebody else, or a painter why he does not paint like somebody else, quite oblivious of the fact that if either of them did anything of the kind he would cease to be an artist.
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I know that one of the great arts that the writer develops is the art of saying, 'No. No, I'm finished. Bye.' And leaving it alone. I will not write it into the ground. I will not write the life out of it. I won't do that.
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The best author will be the one who is ashamed to become a writer.
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I don't think that the writer is regarded as a freak by Americans.
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I'm a writer because I love reading. I love the conversation between a reader and a writer, and that it all takes place in a book-sort of a neutral ground. A writer puts down the words, and a reader interprets the words, and every reader will read a book differently. I love that.
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Any writer worth the name is always getting into one thing or getting out of another thing.
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There's nothing more powerful to a showrunner than a truly invested writer.
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The writer is all alone.
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A writer is like a bean plant - he has his little day, and then gets stringy.
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I don't pretend to be anything but an actor and a writer.
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I don't believe in writer's block.
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The first job of a writer is to be honest.
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I'm thought to be a tough writer, but I'm really a softie.
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I am not an autobiographical writer.
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It's what every writer needs: a daybed.
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If a writer doesn't generate hostility, he is dead.
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I was just as voracious a writer as I was a reader.
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When somebody asks what I do, I guess I say 'writer' first.
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Perhaps it would be better not to be a writer, but if you must, then write.
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There are three things that make a person a writer: inspiration, perspiration and desperation.
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I always knew I wanted to be a writer.
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As a writer, one is always a little blind to what one writes.
