Writer Quotes
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I don't believe in writer's block.
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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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It's what every writer needs: a daybed.
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There's nothing more powerful to a showrunner than a truly invested writer.
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What other grown-up gets told how to do their job so often as a writer?
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When you've finished reading every last thing by a famous writer, literary convention holds that you move on to his or her letters, the DVD extras peddled by publishers.
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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 was just as voracious a writer as I was a reader.
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A writer is like a bean plant - he has his little day, and then gets stringy.
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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 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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I'm thought to be a tough writer, but I'm really a softie.
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Television is a great job for a writer in the way that movies used to be, way before my time. Back when writers in Hollywood were on staff or under contract at any given studio and you'd write movie scripts and then the movies would get made within a few weeks, such that you could be a working writer in the movie business back in the '30s and '40s and '50s and have a hand in writing five or six movies a year that actually got produced. The only thing remotely like that in the 21st century here in Hollywood is working in the TV business.
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A writer has to live with a sense of honor.
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As a writer, one is always a little blind to what one writes.
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I don't think that the writer is regarded as a freak by Americans.
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I am a writer of the textbooks of scientology.
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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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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 was too prissy, too refined, too abstemious, too French to be a good American writer.
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I've always been a very prolific writer.
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I am the kind of writer that people think other people are reading.
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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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The Fiction Writer's Co-op has 51 members, from celebrated NYT bestsellers to promising newcomers, and a waiting list.
