Writer Quotes
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In a movie, you have to be mindful that no budget is going to be able to deal with running around the globe at every whim of the writer.
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I'm not a great writer.
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The impact of any particular writer on your own work is hard to discern.
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The best author will be the one who is ashamed to become a writer.
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I'm a fast writer.
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I figure anytime you put an adjective before 'writer,' it's a way of dismissing the writer.
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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.
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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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As a writer, I was shaped by a desire to write for black people. That things were not being represented. That was my motivating force. That it has become what it has become is shocking to me. I just wanted to be able to take care of my kids.
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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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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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So must the writer, whose productions should Take with the vulgar, be of vulgar mould.
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When somebody asks what I do, I guess I say 'writer' first.
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In the movies, the writer is just the servant, the employee.
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I don't pretend to be anything but an actor and a writer.
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The writer learns to write, in the last resort, only by writing. He must get words onto paper even if he is dissatisfied with them.
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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 am not an autobiographical writer.
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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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Perhaps it would be better not to be a writer, but if you must, then write.
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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 first job of a writer is to be honest.
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I'm a writer; I'm a producer. I've certainly spread myself over a lot of different careers.
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I was just as voracious a writer as I was a reader.
