Writer Quotes
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There will be some trouble about 'biography' because I have never troubled myself to supply particulars of my early life to any writer.
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When I got recognized as a writer, when I got the Emmy, I was more excited than the Emmys I had gotten as an actor.
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If I were a writer and not a singer in 10 years, I don't know how I'd feel about writing really personal songs and getting someone else to sing them.
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If a single writer in a country is in chains, then there are some links of that chain that binds us all.
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I have an editor in my head, that's why I can't read Harry Potter, because Rowling is such a lousy writer.
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I consider myself a writer, foremost - a nonfiction writer.
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Chekhov was as important to me as anybody as a writer.
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The keyhole is my lens as a writer.
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I only write music for myself, I don't try and appeal to anyone else.
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Inspiration is just one requirement for being a writer. Another is keeping regular working hours.
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Each artist or writer who works in Venice comes to believe that the city yields its most special secret to him or her alone.
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There's a certain grain of stupidity that the writer of fiction can hardly do without, and this is the quality of having to stare, of not getting the point at once. The longer you look at one object, the more of the world you see in it; and it's well to remember that the serious fiction writer always writes about the whole world.
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I doubt if the texture of Southern life is any more grotesque than that of the rest of the nation, but it does seem evident that the Southern writer is particularly adept at recognizing the grotesque; and to recognize the grotesque, you have to have some notion of what is not grotesque and why.
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There was a writer in the '20s called Christopher Morley, who I remember a little bit of, who had some influence on me, but I couldn't tell you what it was.
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You don't really learn how to write songs; you learn to develop as a writer, and you get to meet lots of musicians and figure out what kind of sound you want. You have the time to just develop and try different styles, and that's what I did.
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The fiction writer has to engage in a continual examination of conscience. He has to be aware of the freak in himself.
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A writer who can't write in a grammerly manner better shut up shop.
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The writer who aims at producing the platitudes which are "not for an age, but for all time" has his reward in being unreadable inall ages....
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The writer who refuses to explore the darker regions of the heart will never be able to write convincingly about the wonder, the magic and the joy of love for just as goodness cannot be trusted unless it has breathed the same air as evil.
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There's always time to read. Don't trust a writer who doesn't read. It's like eating food prepared by a cook who doesn't eat.
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I am a gay writer, but I am also a Scottish writer and some days a lazy writer, or a funny writer. Being gay is just a part of who I am.
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Nobody's safe around a writer.
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A famous writer who wants to continue writing has to be constantly defending himself against fame.
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When I look at what a writer owes to the reader, it's critical to know that everything you're writing about is not made up in your head. I feel that unless you can document and be certain about what it is that you're writing about, the reader is going to lose faith in your own integrity.
