Writer Quotes
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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.
Len Wein
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... the main concern of the fiction writer is with mystery as it is incarnated in human life.
Flannery O'Connor
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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.
Melissa Bank
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I was too heavy to be a jockey and too honest to be a producer, so I became a writer.
Leon Uris
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I certainly want to continue to write in a way that's intimate. I love books where you feel you're having a romance with the writer.
Joseph O'Neill
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I feel as a writer I’m growing and hopefully each song I write is a little more honest.
Josh Wilson
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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.
Ben Richards
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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.
Alan Alda
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I consider myself a writer, foremost - a nonfiction writer.
Mike Cernovich
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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....
George Bernard Shaw
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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.
Adam Haslett
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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.
Bert Sugar
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The writer cannot abandon himself simply to inspiration, and feign innocence vis a vis language, because language is never innocent.
Juan Goytisolo
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Don't be timid. You're a writer, use your role, test it, make something of it. These are decisive times, everything is turning upside down. Participate, be present.
Elena Ferrante
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My dad, being a jingle writer, and my mom, being a jingle singer, they hooked me up with some people when I was a kid that worked with children's jingle singing groups. I used to sing jingles as a kid.
Reeve Carney
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Amy Schumer is a really, really hilarious writer. She's super funny, and I feel like the core of our senses of humor is really similar.
Katie Dippold
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A famous writer who wants to continue writing has to be constantly defending himself against fame.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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In order to be a great writer a person must have a built-in, shockproof crap detector.
Ernest Hemingway
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He was such a bad writer, they revoked his poetic license.
Milton Berle
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I always tell people I write songs, but I'm a writer. It's a difference. I can write songs to music, but I can write a story. I can see ideas spark in me.
Esther Renay Dean
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Inspiration is just one requirement for being a writer. Another is keeping regular working hours.
Zelda Popkin
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But this I know; the writer who possesses the creative gift owns something of which he is not always master--something that at times strangely wills and works for itself. He may lay down rules and devise principles, and to rules and principles it will perhaps for years lie in subjection; and then, haply without any warning of revolt, there comes a time when it will no longer consent.
Bronte Campbell
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My parents thought it was nice to develop my imagination, but they never seriously thought that anything would ever come of it. They said that I couldn't be an actress because I would be taller than all my leading men, so I thought I would be a writer instead.
Nicole Kidman
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A writer is someone who has written something today
J. A. Jance