Writer Quotes
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I'm a person of the arts. I love the arts very, very, very much. And ah, I'm a musician, I'm a director, I'm a writer, I'm a composer, I'm a producer, and I love the medium. I love film very, very much. I think it's the most expressive of all of the art mediums.
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I have a final word of advice to our students. If you work very, very hard, this is the kind of actor, writer and director you may turn out to be, and if you work extra hard, this is the kind of person you may turn out to be.
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I had to decide if I wanted to be known as a writer or a reader. I chose writer.
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When we first started touring after the release of 'On Through the Night', a lot of people kept calling us a 'punk' band. Obviously they never saw us. Evidently, a paper would assign a writer to cover the show, and the guy would unload his ticket for a few quid, go home and write the review anyway. They all called us 'punk,' because the name sounded that way.
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With luck, a writer capable of producing both Slouching Towards Kalamazoo and The Blood of the Lamb will not remain unappreciated for long.
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Don't be 'a writer'. Be writing.
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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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A writer is not interested in explaining reality, he’s only interested in capturing it.
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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).
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I think every writer lives for the thought that there will be a moment when somebody reads something on the page and says, "Yes!"
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You want to be a writer, don't know how or when? Find a quiet place, use a humble pen.
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I think anyone who's not as good a writer as me is absolutely a hack, and I think anybody who's a slightly better writer than me is brilliant. So of course that makes me a horrible critic when it comes to books, because I can't distance my own experience from what I'm doing.
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Every published writer, myself included, was at one time unpublished. All writers know what rejection feels like.
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A writer should read until he is filled to the brim and like a pitcher which is over-filled over flows. And then he should write.
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A writer is an organism that will go on writing even after its heart has been cut out.
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You have to really have a taste for being alone to be a writer.
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There's a feminist writer, Naomi Wolfe, who is reconsidering her position on abortion.
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A writer can do nothing for men more necessary, satisfying, than just simply to reveal to them the infinite possibility of their own souls.
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But it is not at all unthinkable for anyone to tell a writer how to write. It comes with the territory.
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As actors, we were fighting that tooth and nail because of fear, because language is a crutch and dialogue is a crutch, and it's so easy to just have a great writer write you a line.
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Even the most honest writer lets slip a word too many when he wants to round off a period.
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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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I got a lovely check today from being a writer that I earned by sitting at home. That's rewarding.
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A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.
