Writer Quotes
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A writer is the one who loves to write . . . on and about anything . . . And this clears that I am a writer!!
Anamika Mishra
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Oddly, in a sense, I still have more confidence as a director than my ability as a writer. Somehow, directing is just really easy. It's just about being really honest about how you feel about what you're seeing.
John Whitney "Whit" Stillman
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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.
Michael Jackson
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I used to want to be fully observational, but I'm just not that kind of writer. My process always changes depending on how, when, and where inspiration stiles me.
Brett Dennen
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I know that the writer does call up the general and maybe the essential through the particular, but this general and essential is still deeply embedded in mystery. It is not answerable to any of our formulas.
Flannery O'Connor
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Don't be 'a writer'. Be writing.
William Faulkner
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People keep asking me ...How to instantly become a better writer? It’s simple: Use "power words" and see for yourself.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
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Write. Remember, people may keep you (or me) from being a published author but no one can stop you from being a writer. All you have to do is write. And keep writing. While you’re working at a career, while you’re raising children, while you’re trout fishing--keep writing! No one can stop you but you.
Katherine Neville
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The writer has three sources: imagination, observation, and experience.
William Faulkner
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I'm not the fastest writer. I can't just crank out ideas that are good enough.
Amy Lee Evanescence
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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
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The most underrated of all contemporary American writers of fiction.
William March
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I never studied writing, but I'd always been a reader and had a secret fantasy about being a writer.
Jon Krakauer
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As a writer who writes poetry, nonfiction, and fiction, I think it's important to always maintain a firm grasp on genre and ethics.
Kathleen Rooney
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I never set out to be a published writer.
Ethan Canin
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It’s just that everything is so . . . unreliable lately.” “You can’t cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water,” he said. “Is that a quote?” He nodded. “Rabindranath Tagore. He’s a great writer. You should read him.
Barbara O'Neal
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I had to decide if I wanted to be known as a writer or a reader. I chose writer.
Nathan Lowell
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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.
Walt Whitman
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A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction.
William Faulkner
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What I'd like to be is a unique writer who's different from everybody else. I want to be a writer who tells stories unlike other writers'.
Haruki Murakami
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I feel in some ways I've had a difficult life. And it makes me the kind of writer I am, in what I value, what I respect, what I hold dear.
Melissa Bank
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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
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I'm tired of being considered a lesbian writer, tired of being a science-fiction writer, tired of being a thriller writer. I'm a writer. Period. Story matters to me.
Nicola Griffith
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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.
Andrew Kaufman