Writer Quotes
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Good evening, ladies and gentleman. My name is Orson Welles. I am an actor. I am a writer. I am a producer. I am a director. I am a magician. I appear onstage and on the radio. Why are there so many of me and so few of you?
Orson Welles
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I am the kind of writer that people think other people are reading.
V. S. Naipaul
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A writer is like a bean plant - he has his little day, and then gets stringy.
E. B. White
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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.
Bienvenido Lumbera
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I can work as a writer, but I wanted to do stand-up.
Hannibal Buress
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I'm not a good photographer, not a good writer. I'm a pretty regular person whose insecurity is so pervasive that it makes me always feel vulnerable.
Sally Mann
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I know I am a writer; it is the only thing I am sure of.
Oriana Fallaci
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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.
Aaron Ciechanover
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I've never experienced writer's block. When it's going really well, my body temperature goes up, and I'm flushed. I get quite delirious.
M. J. Hyland
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The beginning of human knowledge is through the senses, and the fiction writer begins where the human perception begins. He appeals through the senses, and you cannot appeal through the senses with abstractions.
Flannery O'Connor
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I've always been a reader and a writer.
Laini Taylor
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I don't think that the writer is regarded as a freak by Americans.
Irwin Shaw
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As a writer, one is always a little blind to what one writes.
Patrick Modiano
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It's very hard to be a gentleman and a writer.
W. Somerset Maugham
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A writer without a reader doesn't exist.
Harlan Coben
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Well I could have been just a writer. I had been a hair dresser. I could have stuck with that.
Fran Drescher
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Every writer uses his own way to motivate oneself.
Rabih Alameddine
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I am a writer. Being critical is a writer's responsibility.
Ma Jian
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If a writer doesn't generate hostility, he is dead.
V. S. Naipaul
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The idea that it is necessary to go to a university in order to become a successful writer . . . is one of those fantasies that surround authorship.
Vera Brittain
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The writer is the engineer of the human soul.
Joseph Stalin
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In my experience an appreciative letter from a fellow writer means a lot.
Ian Mcewan
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Like every Southern writer, I thought that I needed to write the next 'Gone With the Wind.'
Karin Slaughter
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What you believe one day isn't what you believe the next day and I think every writer secretly believes that they may never be able to do write good song or script again, but they can.
Cameron Crowe