Writer Quotes
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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'm a writer; I'm a producer. I've certainly spread myself over a lot of different careers.
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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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I don't believe in writer's block.
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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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TV writing is different than other mediums, involving the 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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It's what every writer needs: a daybed.
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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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Don’t ask a writer what he’s working on. It’s like asking someone with cancer on the progress of his disease.
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There's nothing more powerful to a showrunner than a truly invested writer.
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A writer is like a bean plant - he has his little day, and then gets stringy.
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I'm thought to be a tough writer, but I'm really a softie.
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A writer has to live with a sense of honor.
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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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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 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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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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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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As a writer, one is always a little blind to what one writes.
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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 am a writer of the textbooks of scientology.
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There are three things that make a person a writer: inspiration, perspiration and desperation.
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I don't think that the writer is regarded as a freak by Americans.
