Writer Quotes
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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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A catless writer is almost inconceivable.
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The duty and the task of a writer are those of an interpreter.
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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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A writer should never be brief at the expense of being clear.
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If you are a nice person and you are a writer, that's two strikes against you.
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As a writer who has collaborated on projects, you give your life over to that project.
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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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A writer is a world trapped in a person.
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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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Joseph Mattson is a monster of a writer.
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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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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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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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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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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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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 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.
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You have to really have a taste for being alone to be a writer.
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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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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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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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Writing is rewriting. A writer writes. And be fearless. Some people are going to hate what you write. It’s going to make some of them mad. In the end, you have to write for yourself.
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If I tell a hotel I'm a travel writer, I can't get out of there without spending a few hours looking at every single room!
