Writer Quotes
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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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As a writer who has collaborated on projects, you give your life over to that project.
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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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You can't be a writer if you don't write, it's just that simple.
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You have to really have a taste for being alone to be a writer.
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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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Joseph Mattson is a monster of a writer.
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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.
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Don't be 'a writer'. Be writing.
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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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What first stuns the young writer emerging from college is that there is no clear-cut road for him to travel on. He must chop a path in the wilderness of his own soul, a disheartening process, lifelong and lonesome and therefore, of what use graduate work?
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I never studied writing, but I'd always been a reader and had a secret fantasy about being 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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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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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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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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It is axiomatic among writers that no one ever sues the writer of an unsuccessful book. Just let a book go over twenty-five thousand copies and it is surprising how many people's feelings are hurt, how many screwballs think their brain children have been stolen, and how many people feel that they have been portrayed in a manner calculated to bring infamy upon them.
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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!
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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.
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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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I believe it’s something that happens when one is around art, and when one is close to books: they seep into your system, into your blood, and start to activate something in your life. We start living in the way that some of these characters live, with some sense of their sensibility. It’s almost as if the reader becomes the writer and the writer becomes the reader…
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For me, being a writer, you want to communicate with people, but if your goal is that every person is going to love what you do, then you're always going to be disappointed.
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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.
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When a writer receives praise or blame, when he arouses sympathy or is ridiculed, when he is loved or rejected, it is not on the strength of his thoughts and dreams as a whole, but only of that infinitesimal part which has been able to make its way through the narrow channel of language and the equally narrow channel of the reader's understanding.
