Writer Quotes
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I have learned, as has many another better writer, to summon inspiration to my call as soon as I begin my day's stint, and not to hang around waiting for it. Inspiration is merely a pretty phrase for the zest to work. And it can be cultivated by anyone who has the patience to try. Inspiration that will not come at its possessor's summons is like a dog that cannot be trained to obey. The sooner both are gotten rid of, the better.
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The writer has three sources: imagination, observation, and experience.
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A writer without a sense of justice or injustice would be better off editing the yearbook for a school for exceptional children.
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My past makes me an insider, but my profession makes me an outsider. A writer always stands outside to report on reality.
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We are now, all of us, cinematographers for the movie of our own lives. Not the star. Not the director. Not even the writer.
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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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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.
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Be prepared to work hard to be a writer.
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The most underrated of all contemporary American writers of fiction.
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A writer is not interested in explaining reality, he’s only interested in capturing it.
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You can teach almost anyone determined to learn them the basics required to write sentences and paragraphs that say what you want them to say clearly and concisely. It's far more difficult to get people to think like a writer, to give up conventional habits of mind and emotion. You must be able to step inside your character's skin, and at the same time to remain outside the dicey circumstances you have maneuvered her into.
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My agent is so totally honest, which is just what every writer needs. She won't let me sell a crappy book, even if I want to.
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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.
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There is always something of the writer in the work but I don't think Melville had to be swallowed by a whale to write a great novel. If I had lived the lives of all the characters of the songs I've written, that would truly be an extraordinary story.
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I am practical by nature, and I'd heard that being a writer or an artist is a good way to starve! So I was an economics major at Oklahoma State, and then received an M.S. from Cornell in Agricultural Resource and Managerial Economics. I knew if I wanted to write I would do it on my own, but I knew I wouldn't make myself study economics on my own.
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I'm a writer and a photographer - I'm totally aware that doesn't always translate to TV.
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It is only the basest writer who cannot speak of the sea without talking of "raging waves," "remorseless floods," "ravenous billows," etc.; and it is one of the signs of the highest power in a writer to check all such habits of thought, and to keep his eyes fixed firmly on the pure fact , out of which if any feeling comes to him or his reader, he knows it must be a true one.
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What no wife of a writer can ever understand...is that a writer is working when he's staring out the window.
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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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He the writer must, teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid; and, teaching himself that, forget it forever, leaving no room in his workshop for anything but the old verities and truths of the heart, the old universal truths lacking which any story is ephemeral and doomed - love and honor and pity and compassion and sacrifice. See Poets & Writers.
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I never intended to become a writer.
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All a writer has to do to get a woman is to say he's a writer. It's an aphrodisiac.
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My best business decision was becoming a writer as well as a director, and learning all aspects of the filmmaking craft. My worst business decision was licensing music that I don't own.
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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.
