Writer Quotes
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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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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.
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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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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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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.
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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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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.
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I consider myself a writer, foremost - a nonfiction writer.
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Mediocrity is more dangerous in a critic than in a writer.
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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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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.
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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.
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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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A famous writer who wants to continue writing has to be constantly defending himself against fame.
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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.
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A writer is someone who has written something today
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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.
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Inspiration is just one requirement for being a writer. Another is keeping regular working hours.
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I'm a writer. An amateur photographer. An actor.
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A great writer is nothing less than a martyr who does not die.
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A writer survives in spite of his beliefs.
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I liked the idea of being a writer and letting somebody else do the graft.
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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.
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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.
