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.
Flannery O'Connor -
Mo Yan is the Chinese equivalent of the Soviet Russian apparatchik writer Mikhail Sholokhov: a patsy of the regime.
Salman Rushdie
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My favorite short-story writer is John Cheever.
Irwin Shaw -
I am a writer. Being critical is a writer's responsibility.
Ma Jian -
The writer learns to write, in the last resort, only by writing. He must get words onto paper even if he is dissatisfied with them.
Paul Johnson -
The writer is all alone.
V. S. Naipaul -
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.
P. J. Harvey -
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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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.
J. G. Ballard -
There are actors who can pull of a writer's lines; I am not competent enough to do that.
Salman Khan -
The creative writer does the same as the child at play; he creates a world of fantasy which he takes very seriously.
Sigmund Freud -
'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.
Hannibal Buress -
I've always been a reader and a writer.
Laini Taylor -
A writer without a reader doesn't exist.
Harlan Coben
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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.
Patrick Modiano -
Every writer uses his own way to motivate oneself.
Rabih Alameddine -
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.
Lee Gutkind -
I'm a writer more than I am a talker.
Wendell Berry -
I can work as a writer, but I wanted to do stand-up.
Hannibal Buress -
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.
Barry Hannah
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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.
Harlan Coben -
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 -
I was always a writer – working on campaigns was never a profession for me. It was something I did on the side, really, so the trajectory hasn't been a political operative who likes to dabble in writing and finds himself into stumbling on film and TV – that was always my goal.
Beau Willimon -
I know I am a writer; it is the only thing I am sure of.
Oriana Fallaci