Writer Quotes
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A writer should never be brief at the expense of being clear.
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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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The writer must proudly consent to bear his own date, knowing that there are no masterpieces in eternity, but only works in history, and that they survive only to the degree that they have left the past behind them and heralded the future.
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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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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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You can't be a writer if you don't write, it's just that simple.
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Alan Moore is a prophetic writer.
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Being a Negro writer these days is a racket and I'm going to make the most of it while it lasts. About twice a year I sell a story. It is acclaimed. I am a genius in the making. Thank God for this Negro literary renaissance. Long may it flourish
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A writer is not interested in explaining reality, he’s only interested in capturing it.
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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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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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As a writer who has collaborated on projects, you give your life over to that project.
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That I was a writer was further proof of God’s far-sightedness; she was convinced that by some magic of propinquity she would acquire a mastery of the English language.
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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 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.
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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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The writer has three sources: imagination, observation, and experience.
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Every writer, big or small, needs to say or write that the genius is always hissed at by his contemporaries. Naturally, this is not true, it happens only occasionally and often by chance. But this need within the writer is enlightening.
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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.
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You have to really have a taste for being alone to be a writer.
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One is always enthralled, I think, when a young writer you're just beginning to read and comprehend dies.
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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'm better at being a lawyer than I am at being a writer.
