Writer Quotes
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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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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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The most underrated of all contemporary American writers of fiction.
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I never set out to be a published writer.
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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.
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I had to decide if I wanted to be known as a writer or a reader. I chose writer.
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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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A writer is not interested in explaining reality, he’s only interested in capturing it.
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I'm a writer, so I interview people all the time, and I think of it as being a very creative process. Giving interviews is actually one of the most creative parts of the film promotion process.
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The beauty with comics - and also the risk - is it is a far smaller number of voices. It's the writer and the artist and to a lesser extent the editor, who typically is the silent partner, if you've got a good enough team. Whatever you put out is the author's intent. You have to be able to defend that, of course. You have no one to hide behind, or no one to blame but yourselves, which I find refreshing because I've found in film too many times I've been blamed for other people's decisions.
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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 don't think anybody can teach anybody anything. I think that you learn it, but the young writer that is as I say demon-driven and wants to learn and has got to write, he don't know why, he will learn from almost any source that he finds. He will learn from older people who are not writers, he will learn from writers, but he learns it -- you can't teach it.
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Holly Black is the Real Thing: a gifted writer with a solid grounding in what matters. Her stories are dark and splendid blooms rising from roots sunk deep in myth and tradition.
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I don't think being a lawyer is more or less valuable than being a writer.
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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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If you want to be a writer, you don't want to live in a comfortable place.
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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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When I'm out and about, I'll text or email myself from my phone. A smart phone is a great tool for a writer.
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Chesler cites the claim by the Palestinian American writer Suha Sabbagh that Western feminists, simply by writing about Muslim women, exert "a greater degree of domination" over those women "than that actually exercised by men over women within Muslim culture." A brown woman in (say) some Pakistani village, then, is actually more oppressed by some white woman tapping away at a computer at some American university she's never heard of than by a man who's beating and raping her in her home.
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As I found again and again as a writer, when you're completely honest about something, people respond to that.
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If you're a writer, you don't serve genres. Genres serve you. Like, if you're writing a science fiction story set on a spaceship, you don't have to have someone thrown out an airlock.
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The writer, as I see it, has the right of way, so it's up to the reader to look out.
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The Booker thing was a catalyst for me in a bizarre way. It’s perceived as an accolade to be published as a ‘literary’ writer, but, actually, it’s pompous and it’s fake. Literary fiction is often nothing more than a genre in itself. I’d always read omnivorously and often thought much literary fiction is read by young men and women in their 20s, as substitutes for experience.
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I firmly believe that there is no better thriller writer than Harlan Coben.
