Writer Quotes
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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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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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What other grown-up gets told how to do their job so often as a writer?
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The other writer who had a very important early influence on me when I was about 17 was C.S. Lewis.
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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, one is always a little blind to what one writes.
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It's really a misconception to identify the writer with the main character, given that the author creates all the characters in the book. In certain ways, I'm every character.
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I always say three things make a writer: inspiration, obviously; perspiration, doing the work. But the third is desperation. I'm not really fit for anything else, or to have a real job. That fear drives me. The pressure has always been self inflicted.
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I am a writer of the textbooks of scientology.
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When somebody asks what I do, I guess I say 'writer' first.
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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 wouldn't buy somebody's album on a dare if they called him a musician's musician. I don't write to be a writer's writer. I don't want to be like the little-magazine writer.
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There are three things that make a person a writer: inspiration, perspiration and desperation.
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The writer is all alone.
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I am a writer. Being critical is a writer's responsibility.
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It's what every writer needs: a daybed.
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I was too prissy, too refined, too abstemious, too French to be a good American writer.
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I'm thought to be a tough writer, but I'm really a softie.
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There's nothing more powerful to a showrunner than a truly invested writer.
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TV writing is different than other mediums, involving the writer.
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Given that external reality is a fiction, the writer's role is almost superfluous. He does not need to invent the fiction because it is already there.
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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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The most annoying and full-of-crap thing a writer says is, 'I write only for myself, I don't care if anyone reads it.' A writer without a reader doesn't exist.
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I'm not a writer where I feel particularly blessed by great inspiration every day. I don't. I have to work really hard at it to try and say the things I'm concerned with.
