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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The best author will be the one who is ashamed to become a writer.
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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 writer needs to react to his or her own internal universe, to his or her own point of view. If he or she doesn't have a personal point of view, it's impossible to be a creator.
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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.
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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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I don't think that the writer is regarded as a freak by Americans.
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When somebody asks what I do, I guess I say 'writer' first.
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There's nothing more powerful to a showrunner than a truly invested writer.
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A writer is like a bean plant - he has his little day, and then gets stringy.
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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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I am the kind of writer that people think other people are reading.
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I don't pretend to be anything but an actor and a writer.
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I do realize that I am a popular writer who people buy to take on vacation. I'm an escapist kind of writer.
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Creative non-fiction is such a liberating genre because it allows the non-fiction writer, whether he or she be journalist or essayist, to use all of the techniques of the fiction writer and all of the ideas, creative approaches, that fiction writers get a chance to use, but they have to use it in a true story.
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The first job of a writer is to be honest.
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As a writer, one is always a little blind to what one writes.
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It's what every writer needs: a daybed.
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I don't believe in writer's block.
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The writer is all alone.
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Good evening, ladies and gentleman. My name is Orson Welles. I am an actor. I am a writer. I am a producer. I am a director. I am a magician. I appear onstage and on the radio. Why are there so many of me and so few of you?
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I think I became a writer because I didn't know of anything else to do. Maybe some incident from my childhood influenced me.
