Writer Quotes
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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.
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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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The writer is all alone.
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My favorite short-story writer is John Cheever.
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I've always been a reader and a writer.
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A writer without a reader doesn't exist.
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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 am a writer. Being critical is a writer's responsibility.
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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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Well I could have been just a writer. I had been a hair dresser. I could have stuck with that.
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Don’t ask a writer what he’s working on. It’s like asking someone with cancer on the progress of his disease.
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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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TV writing is different than other mediums, involving the writer.
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Every writer uses his own way to motivate oneself.
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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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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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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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I can work as a writer, but I wanted to do stand-up.
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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 am the worlds laziest writer.
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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.
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I don't go around thinking about regret; regret doesn't consume me as a person... I'm not certain about whether any writer, any artist, any musician, can write without regret, so I don't think perhaps it's even particularly Southern.
