Writer Quotes
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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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There is a root arrogance in any writer; a hugely arrogant assumption that anyone is going to listen to them.
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Being an editor doesn't make you a better writer - or vice versa. The worst thing any editor can do is be in competition with his writer.
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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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As long as I can remember, I wanted to be a writer.
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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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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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A writer strives to express a universal truth in the way that rings the most bells in the shortest amount of time.
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I don't think being a lawyer is more or less valuable than being a writer.
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The duty and the task of a writer are those of an interpreter.
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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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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 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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I'm a very emotional writer. I always need to have a boyfriend. I always need to have some food. I always need to have a heater at my feet, and I drink this thing called Cool Brew, which I found in Louisiana. It's like condensed coffee.
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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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Alan Moore is a prophetic 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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By the time I would have graduated, at 22, I was a writer and featured performer on Saturday Night Live.
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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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If I really knew how to do good storytelling, I would be a writer. Mystery is not a huge part of it. ... It's tension, it's relationships. I think it's a struggle.
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A writer is not interested in explaining reality, he’s only interested in capturing it.
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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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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.
