Writer Quotes
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The writer, when he is also an artist, is someone who admits what others don't dare reveal.
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The duty and the task of a writer are those of an interpreter.
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A catless writer is almost inconceivable.
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I never became a writer for the money. I am a poet first. Even getting published is a miracle for poets.
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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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If you really want to be a writer, nobody can stop you - and if you don't, nobody can help you.
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Joseph Mattson is a monster of a writer.
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A writer should never be brief at the expense of being clear.
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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 has collaborated on projects, you give your life over to that project.
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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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A writer is a world trapped in a person.
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The obscurity, incredibility and obscenity, so conspicuous in many parts of it, would justly condemn the works of a modern writer. It contains a mixture of inconsistency and contradiction; to call which the word of God, is the highest pitch of extravagance: it is to attribute to the deity that which any person of common sense would blush to confess himself the author of.
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The key to being a wonderful writer is not to write. You just get out of the way. Leave room for God to walk in the room. And when I write something that I know is right, I get on my knees and say 'thank you.'
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Artie is a singer, and I'm a writer and player and a singer. We didn't work together on a creative level and prepare the songs. I did that.
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I'm a better writer now because I've worked very hard at getting better. My long-range goal will always be to write better books.
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A writer never has a vacation. For a writer, life consists of either writing or thinking about writing.
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The writer will write in his or her words, but the readers, even when they are not reading you, will take it elsewhere entirely.
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You have to really have a taste for being alone to be a writer.
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As a science-fiction writer, I feel my responsibility is to look ahead and see the dangers of what might happen and try to warn people of the potential pitfalls.
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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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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 judging his own work is like deceived husband - he is frequently the last person to appreciate the true state of affairs.
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A writer strives to express a universal truth in the way that rings the most bells in the shortest amount of time.
