Writer Quotes
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A writer is like a bean plant - he has his little day, and then gets stringy.
E. B. White -
I do realize that I am a popular writer who people buy to take on vacation. I'm an escapist kind of writer.
Maeve Binchy
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What other grown-up gets told how to do their job so often as a writer?
Rachel Cusk -
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?
Orson Welles -
I'm thought to be a tough writer, but I'm really a softie.
V. S. Naipaul -
I'm a fast writer.
J. J. Abrams -
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.
Karan Mahajan -
As a writer, one is always a little blind to what one writes.
Patrick Modiano
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A writer has to live with a sense of honor.
Irwin Shaw -
I figure anytime you put an adjective before 'writer,' it's a way of dismissing the writer.
Stephen Graham Jones -
I don't think that the writer is regarded as a freak by Americans.
Irwin Shaw -
I am a writer of the textbooks of scientology.
L. Ron Hubbard -
I was just as voracious a writer as I was a reader.
Iris Johansen -
I was too prissy, too refined, too abstemious, too French to be a good American writer.
Edmund White
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I am the kind of writer that people think other people are reading.
V. S. Naipaul -
The other writer who had a very important early influence on me when I was about 17 was C.S. Lewis.
Tanith Lee -
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.
Vince Gilligan -
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.
Harlan Coben -
I've always been a very prolific writer.
Nanci Griffith -
The Fiction Writer's Co-op has 51 members, from celebrated NYT bestsellers to promising newcomers, and a waiting list.
M. J. Rose
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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.
Barry Hannah -
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.
Rachel Kushner -
There are three things that make a person a writer: inspiration, perspiration and desperation.
Harlan Coben -
Perhaps it would be better not to be a writer, but if you must, then write.
J. B. Priestley