Writer Quotes
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The writer has three sources: imagination, observation, and experience.
William Faulkner -
Criticism - however valid or intellectually engaging - tends to get in the way of a writer who has anything personal to say. A tightrope walker may require practice, but if he starts a theory of equilibrium he will lose grace (and probably fall off).
J. R. R. Tolkien
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I was going to be a writer. One person believed I could do it: my mom. Having her faith in me was like carrying around the Hammer of Thor.
Michael Easton -
I'm not the fastest writer. I can't just crank out ideas that are good enough.
Amy Lee Evanescence -
A writer should never be brief at the expense of being clear.
Arthur Schopenhauer -
I never set out to be a published writer.
Ethan Canin -
A writer judging his own work is like deceived husband - he is frequently the last person to appreciate the true state of affairs.
John D. Voelker -
A writer is a world trapped in a person.
Victor Hugo
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As a writer, you sit around a computer all day, and it's too easy to open another tab and keep Rotten Tomatoes there.
Evan Daugherty -
To be a writer and political is a dangerous thing. To be a writer and apolitical is even more dangerous. Art is right, left; in truth, it has only one direction and that is forward.
Chris Campanioni -
Each time a writer or an artist 'tells' the world in an ever so slightly new fashion, it is changed.
Claude Simon -
I'm a very emotional writer. I always need to have a boyfriend. I always need to have some food. I always need to have a heater at my feet, and I drink this thing called Cool Brew, which I found in Louisiana. It's like condensed coffee.
Esther Renay Dean -
I was never a quick writer, but composed with great care and efforts.
Joseph Haydn -
Mediocrity is more dangerous in a critic than in a writer.
Eugene Ionesco
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The writer has two kinds of faith: actual writing and sitting openly. Have faith in your personal effort or sweat. And faith in God, or whatever you want to call it. Then the voices will come. Faith is the big deal.
Suzan-Lori Parks -
If you wait for inspiration to write you're not a writer, you're a waiter.
Dan Poynter -
If you're a writer there will come at least one morning in your life when you wake up and want to kill your agent.
Bernice Rubens -
I think it's amazing to have one writer write every episode of a series. It's very rare, I think. You get a voice that continues.
Harry Treadaway -
The writer can't stop her unconscious from showing up, that's certain.
Simone de Beauvoir -
I never intended to become a writer.
Richard Selzer
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If I tell a hotel I'm a travel writer, I can't get out of there without spending a few hours looking at every single room!
Arthur Frommer -
Literary theories will not make a writer write.
Allen Wier -
I'm a writer, so I interview people all the time, and I think of it as being a very creative process. Giving interviews is actually one of the most creative parts of the film promotion process.
Aaron Rose -
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.
Elena Ferrante