Writer Quotes
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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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Ignorance is bliss as a writer, I think.
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I think of a writer as a river: you reflect what passes before you.
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The keyhole is my lens as a writer.
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I was too heavy to be a jockey and too honest to be a producer, so I became a writer.
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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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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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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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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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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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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've never had to work out of the arts. I've always either been a writer or an editor, or something where I've made my living from doing what I love. You can't get any better than that.
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The writer cannot abandon himself simply to inspiration, and feign innocence vis a vis language, because language is never innocent.
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I don't have any real goals except to follow one good sentence with another... I'm not the kind of writer who has a map.
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... the main concern of the fiction writer is with mystery as it is incarnated in human life.
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I feel as a writer I’m growing and hopefully each song I write is a little more honest.
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Ask a writer what he thinks about critics and the answer you get is similar to what you get when you ask a lamppost how he feels about dogs.
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I'm not from a particularly sci-fi background. I'm not anti sci-fi at all, but I've never been known as a sci-fi writer and, suddenly, I was creating a flagship BBC sci-fi show, which is terrifying sometimes.
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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.
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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 consider myself a writer, foremost - a nonfiction 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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A writer is someone who has written something today
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As I see it, my job as a writer isn't to judge, but to take a reader as far inside as I can and let them dwell there.
