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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The best author will be the one who is ashamed to become a writer.
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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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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 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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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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There's nothing more powerful to a showrunner than a truly invested writer.
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When somebody asks what I do, I guess I say 'writer' first.
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I don't think that the writer is regarded as a freak by Americans.
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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 don't believe in writer's block.
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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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The first job of a writer is to be honest.
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It's what every writer needs: a daybed.
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I am the kind of writer that people think other people are reading.
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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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I'm thought to be a tough writer, but I'm really a softie.
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I've always been a very prolific 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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As a writer, one is always a little blind to what one writes.
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I am not an autobiographical writer.
