Writer Quotes
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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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If the public likes you, you're good. Shakespeare was a common, down-to-earth writer in his day.
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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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... the main concern of the fiction writer is with mystery as it is incarnated in human life.
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He was such a bad writer, they revoked his poetic license.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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I feel as a writer I’m growing and hopefully each song I write is a little more honest.
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I am a driven writer. I feel guilty if I don't write, not self-indulgent if I do.
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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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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 writer is someone who has written something today
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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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I liked the idea of being a writer and letting somebody else do the graft.
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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'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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Inspiration is just one requirement for being a writer. Another is keeping regular working hours.
