Writer Quotes
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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 -
Well a good writer writes, a good musician listens to a lot more than he actually composes, and if you're going to do lyrics - well, there's a Freudian slip. That's not even a slip, that's a Freudian move: I said going to do lyrics. If you really want it to ring true, you'll live it first. Go really get your heart broken!
David Lee Roth Van Halen
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In order to be a great writer a person must have a built-in, shockproof crap detector.
Ernest Hemingway -
The Revelation was my master's project, and after I finished it, I thought I'd send it off to a publisher and within a year or so be a rich and famous writer. Two years later I finally sold it. For a whopping $4,000. A year after that, it finally came out. Which explains why there are all those terrible jobs on my resume!
Bentley Little -
Andy Gullahorn is my favorite new musical discovery of the past five years. He's a brilliant writer, a fine musician and a generous spirit.
David LaMotte -
The greatest gift anyone can give to a writer is time.
Edwidge Danticat -
I wouldn't say I was a born writer; I'm a born thinker.
John Lennon The Beatles -
Lilian Ross was a - veteran writer for The New Yorker. She, in fact, brought me to The New Yorker many years ago.
Nat Hentoff
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A strong experience in the present awakens in the creative writer a memory of an earlier experience (usually belonging to his childhood) from which there now proceeds a wish which finds its fulfilment in the creative work.
Sigmund Freud -
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 -
Style is that which indicates how the writer takes himself and what he is saying. It is the mind skating circles around itself as it moves forward.
Robert Frost -
I liked the idea of being a writer and letting somebody else do the graft.
Siouxsie Sioux Siouxsie and the Banshees -
We grow hostile to many an artist or writer, not because we finally come to see he has deceived us, but because he thought no subtler means were required to ensnare us.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
A great writer is nothing less than a martyr who does not die.
Honore de Balzac
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THE WRITER can get free of his writing only by using it, that is, by reading oneself. As if the aim of writing were to use what is already written as a launching pad for reading the writing to come. Moreover, what he has written is read in the process, hence constantly modified by his reading. The book is an unbearable totality. I write against a background of facets.
Edmond Jabes -
The only person stopping you from doing something is yourself, and looking for excuses all the time just gets in the way of obtaining your own goals. It's like the writer who keeps getting up and straightening the pictures in the room.
Chrissie Hynde Pretenders -
Inspiration is just one requirement for being a writer. Another is keeping regular working hours.
Zelda Popkin -
For a country to have a great writer … is like having another government. That’s why no regime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn -
What I always wanted to get seen as was as a good actor, when it was the acting I was doing. When I'm writing, I want to try to be seen as a good writer.
Alan Alda -
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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It is only a moment here and a moment there that the greatest writer has. Some cognizance of the fact must be taken in your teaching.
Robert Frost -
The real writer is one who really writes. Talent is an invention like phlogiston after the fact of fire. Work is its own cure. You have to like it better than being loved.
Marge Piercy -
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 -
There are dozens of great American writers who write about the family.
William Nicholson