Writer Quotes
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In order to be a great writer a person must have a built-in, shockproof crap detector.
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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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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 painter paints, a musician plays, a writer writes - but a movie actor waits.
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A writer is someone who has written something today
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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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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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Inspiration is just one requirement for being a writer. Another is keeping regular working hours.
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A famous writer who wants to continue writing has to be constantly defending himself against fame.
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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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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] must essentially draw from life as he sees it, lives it, overhears it or steals it, and the truer the writer, perhaps the bigger the blackguard. He lives by biting the hand that feeds him.
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I heard someone say he [Carl Sandburg] was the kind of writer who had everything to gain and nothing to lose by being translated into another language.
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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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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.
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I'm a writer. An amateur photographer. An actor.
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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 was too heavy to be a jockey and too honest to be a producer, so I became a writer.
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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.
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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.
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I liked the idea of being a writer and letting somebody else do the graft.
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I feel like it's a good time to be a writer. I'm terminally optimistic. It seems like the publishing industry is in the middle of a big transition, and that the rules of the game are still sorting themselves out.
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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 writer cannot abandon himself simply to inspiration, and feign innocence vis a vis language, because language is never innocent.
