Writer Quotes
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I am the kind of writer that people think other people are reading.
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The Fiction Writer's Co-op has 51 members, from celebrated NYT bestsellers to promising newcomers, and a waiting list.
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Given that external reality is a fiction, the writer's role is almost superfluous. He does not need to invent the fiction because it is already there.
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The writer is all alone.
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There are three things that make a person a writer: inspiration, perspiration and desperation.
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It's really a misconception to identify the writer with the main character, given that the author creates all the characters in the book. In certain ways, I'm every character.
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My favorite short-story writer is John Cheever.
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A writer without a reader doesn't exist.
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I've always been a reader and a writer.
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'SNL' doesn't have a traditional writer's room. On Monday, there's the pitch meeting with the guest, and I played that like it was stand-up.
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I'm not a writer where I feel particularly blessed by great inspiration every day. I don't. I have to work really hard at it to try and say the things I'm concerned with.
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I am a writer. Being critical is a writer's responsibility.
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Well I could have been just a writer. I had been a hair dresser. I could have stuck with that.
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The most annoying and full-of-crap thing a writer says is, 'I write only for myself, I don't care if anyone reads it.' A writer without a reader doesn't exist.
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Every writer uses his own way to motivate oneself.
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Mo Yan is the Chinese equivalent of the Soviet Russian apparatchik writer Mikhail Sholokhov: a patsy of the regime.
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I think I became a writer because I didn't know of anything else to do. Maybe some incident from my childhood influenced me.
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There are actors who can pull of a writer's lines; I am not competent enough to do that.
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The writer has the advantage of a medium that can be contemplated many times over on the pages of a book or a magazine. The words lie on the page and the writer has an extended opportunity to imprint on his reader every meaning and nuance distilled from experience.
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The important thing is to do what you most love in the best way. If you love literature, you could be a great writer and perhaps one day become a Nobel Prize Laureate for Literature.
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I'm a writer more than I am a talker.
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I can work as a writer, but I wanted to do stand-up.
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I am the worlds laziest writer.
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Creative non-fiction is such a liberating genre because it allows the non-fiction writer, whether he or she be journalist or essayist, to use all of the techniques of the fiction writer and all of the ideas, creative approaches, that fiction writers get a chance to use, but they have to use it in a true story.
