Writer Quotes
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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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Be prepared to work hard to be a 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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When I was younger, I didn't like shooting part, because I was more of a writer and didn't like being the center of it all.
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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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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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My idea of teaching literature is just to read great passages aloud or to look at it the way a writer does, which is what I try to do. Which is to say, 'How does this writer do this? How did he order his scenes? Do you notice any pattern to his sentences?'
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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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Why did I become a writer? A bird's feather on my windowpane in winter and all at once there arose in my heart a battle of embers never to subside again.
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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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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'm a writer and a photographer - I'm totally aware that doesn't always translate to TV.
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The writer has three sources: imagination, observation, and experience.
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The most underrated of all contemporary American writers of fiction.
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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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For writers that rehearsal period is death. It is the most destructive thing of all to a script.
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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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Technically, I could have said “journalist” or “writer.” However, admitting to these professions is like uttering a special secret password to Travel Hell. No one wants journalists or writers in their country because they have a habit of writing things, and sometimes these things are even true.
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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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I write about what I know and what I have experienced. This keeps me an "honest" writer.
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A writer is not interested in explaining reality, he’s only interested in capturing it.
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Don't be 'a writer'. Be writing.
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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.
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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.