Writer Quotes
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I am the kind of writer that people think other people are reading.
V. S. Naipaul
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I know that one of the great arts that the writer develops is the art of saying, 'No. No, I'm finished. Bye.' And leaving it alone. I will not write it into the ground. I will not write the life out of it. I won't do that.
Maya Angelou
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I am the worlds laziest writer.
Oscar Peterson
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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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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 a writer. Being critical is a writer's responsibility.
Ma Jian
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I can work as a writer, but I wanted to do stand-up.
Hannibal Buress
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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 know I am a writer; it is the only thing I am sure of.
Oriana Fallaci
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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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A writer without a reader doesn't exist.
Harlan Coben
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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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It's very hard to be a gentleman and a writer.
W. Somerset Maugham
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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 writer is all alone.
V. S. Naipaul
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I don't think that the writer is regarded as a freak by Americans.
Irwin Shaw
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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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If a writer doesn't generate hostility, he is dead.
V. S. Naipaul
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I've always been a reader and a writer.
Laini Taylor
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The writer is the engineer of the human soul.
Joseph Stalin
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If I really considered myself a writer, I wouldn't be writing screenplays. I'd be writing novels.
Quentin Tarantino
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Every writer uses his own way to motivate oneself.
Rabih Alameddine
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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
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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.
Hannibal Buress