Writer Quotes
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For your born writer, nothing is so healing as the realization that he has come upon the right word.
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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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What the writer needs is an empty day ahead.
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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'm a person of the arts. I love the arts very, very, very much. And ah, I'm a musician, I'm a director, I'm a writer, I'm a composer, I'm a producer, and I love the medium. I love film very, very much. I think it's the most expressive of all of the art mediums.
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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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Alan Moore is a prophetic writer.
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I love being able to be a writer. That's what I moved to New York to be.
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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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Joseph Mattson is a monster of a writer.
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I think that's part of being a comedy writer. You have to be confident. If you're sitting around worrying about, like, oh my God, what are people going to think, then you're not writing comedy. You have to write what makes you laugh, and then the world hopefully laughs as well.
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I looked back at some high school journals and discovered that I definitely wanted to be a writer, but not necessarily comedy.
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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 don't think any writer is a friend to the reader if he or she is not funny.
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One has to live a life that creates 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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Great historians can make the discovery of the real story more exciting than the romantic myth. Stacy Schiff, a great historian as well as a wonderful writer, peels away the layers to reveal the true Cleopatraa much more interesting woman than the Hollywood version and, as it turns out, a formidable queen after all.
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If you want to be a writer, you write. Everybody wants to get published. You gotta play your long game.
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If you're a writer there will come at least one morning in your life when you wake up and want to kill your agent.
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Writer? A complimentary term to conceal one’s insanities.
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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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I feel like I have to be a walking encyclopedia - I constantly have to be explaining myself - especially when I do table work or when I'm talking to a dramaturg about, you know, the culture, but also what I'm trying to do as a writer in this particular play. You know, you have to protect yourself too.
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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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Dictatorship and authentic literature are incompatible... The writer is the natural enemy of dictatorship.
