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.
Daniel Clowes -
I'm not a great writer.
E. L. James
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The best author will be the one who is ashamed to become a writer.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
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.
Joss Whedon -
The impact of any particular writer on your own work is hard to discern.
Daniel Alarcon -
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.
Oscar Wilde -
Life can't defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life itself is a writer's lover until death.
Edna Ferber -
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.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
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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.
Garth Stein -
So must the writer, whose productions should Take with the vulgar, be of vulgar mould.
Edmund Waller -
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.
E. L. Doctorow -
I don't pretend to be anything but an actor and a writer.
Dan Futterman -
I am not an autobiographical writer.
Yann Martel -
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.
Maya Angelou
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I'm a writer; I'm a producer. I've certainly spread myself over a lot of different careers.
Dan Bucatinsky -
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.
Manuel Puig -
In the movies, the writer is just the servant, the employee.
Salman Rushdie -
When somebody asks what I do, I guess I say 'writer' first.
Ilana Glazer -
The first job of a writer is to be honest.
Irvine Welsh -
It's what every writer needs: a daybed.
Vince Flynn
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Any writer worth the name is always getting into one thing or getting out of another thing.
Fannie Hurst -
There's nothing more powerful to a showrunner than a truly invested writer.
Vince Gilligan -
I don't believe in writer's block.
Gabrielle Zevin -
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