Writer Quotes
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A writer survives in spite of his beliefs.
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Cecil Castellucci is writing Shade, who is the perfect writer for it. I love her young adult stuff, and it's pretty hardcore and visceral, so I knew she was going to bring that to the book.
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Time to a writer is like play dough in the hands of a toddler.
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Every book has an intrinsic impossibility, which its writer discovers as soon as his first excitement dwindles.
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And I am a writer, writer of fictions I am the heart that you call home And I've written pages upon pages Trying to rid you from my bones...
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The writer is always to some extent in exile, wherever he is, because he is somehow outside, separated from others; there is always a distance.
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The writer studies literature, not the world.
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I am convinced that anyone can be a great writer . . . if he can only . . . tell the naked truth about himself and other people. That, a little technique with words and the willingness to bare heart, soul and body are really all it takes.
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The ear is the only true writer and the only true reader.
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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.
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Here I am, where I ought to be. A writer must have a place where he or she feels this, the place to love and be irritated with.
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A writer is a world trapped in a person.
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I don't know if I want to be a writer.
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For writers that rehearsal period is death. It is the most destructive thing of all to a script.
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You do not need to go to journalism school if you want to work in the fashion industry. I think high schools condition you to think this way: If you want to be a fashion editor, go to fashion school. If you want to be a writer, you should study journalism. I think that the best school in life is experience.
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The writer can't stop her unconscious from showing up, that's certain.
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There's a certain order to network shows that doesn't exist so much in cable, which is, you know, if you want to change a line you've got to talk to the writer.
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Speech is highly elliptical. It would scarcely be endurable otherwise. Ellipsis is indispensable to the writer or speaker who wants to be brief and pithy, but it can easily cause confusion and obscurity and must be used with skill.
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I never became a writer for the money. I am a poet first. Even getting published is a miracle for poets.
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In 1999 and 2000, when I was a young editorial writer at the 'Post', the 'Post' won the public service medal two years running.
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As a science-fiction writer, I feel my responsibility is to look ahead and see the dangers of what might happen and try to warn people of the potential pitfalls.
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The ear is the only true writer and the only true reader. I know people who read without hearing the sentence sounds and they were the fastest readers. Eye readers we call them. They get the meaning by glances. But they are bad readers because they miss the best part of what a good writer puts into his work.
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A lot of the job that one has to do as a writer is to protect the thing that doesn't match the world.
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As a writer, the most important thing for me is to continue to write, no matter where I am.
