Writer Quotes
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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.
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You can't be a writer if you don't write, it's just that simple.
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Don't be 'a writer'. Be writing.
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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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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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Each time a writer or an artist 'tells' the world in an ever so slightly new fashion, it is changed.
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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 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.
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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.
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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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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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“Heather resented it that this woman was his daughter. How does a writer of the most subtle, serious fiction end up with a daughter who watches Oprah? I’d be a better daughter for him than she is.
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There is a root arrogance in any writer; a hugely arrogant assumption that anyone is going to listen to them.
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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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The Black writer explains pain to those who inflict it.
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I'm not the fastest writer. I can't just crank out ideas that are good enough.
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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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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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If I really knew how to do good storytelling, I would be a writer. Mystery is not a huge part of it. ... It's tension, it's relationships. I think it's a struggle.
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If you want to be a writer, you write. Everybody wants to get published. You gotta play your long game.
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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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A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction.
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That is much of what I think the writer's job is - to slow people down. To give them the chance to notice the passage of time as experienced by others as a reminder of what it is like to be alive. Because we are most often distracted from that. Massively distracted.
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If you wait for inspiration to write you're not a writer, you're a waiter.
