Writer Quotes
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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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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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I am a writer of the textbooks of scientology.
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I am the kind of writer that people think other people are reading.
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I can work as a writer, but I wanted to do stand-up.
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I don't think that the writer is regarded as a freak by Americans.
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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'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.
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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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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 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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A writer without a reader doesn't exist.
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I know I am a writer; it is the only thing I am sure of.
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Every writer uses his own way to motivate oneself.
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It's very hard to be a gentleman and a writer.
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I've always been a reader and a writer.
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I am a writer. Being critical is a writer's responsibility.
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As a writer, one is always a little blind to what one writes.
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Television is a great job for a writer in the way that movies used to be, way before my time. Back when writers in Hollywood were on staff or under contract at any given studio and you'd write movie scripts and then the movies would get made within a few weeks, such that you could be a working writer in the movie business back in the '30s and '40s and '50s and have a hand in writing five or six movies a year that actually got produced. The only thing remotely like that in the 21st century here in Hollywood is working in the TV business.
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If a writer doesn't generate hostility, he is dead.
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Like every Southern writer, I thought that I needed to write the next 'Gone With the Wind.'
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I don't look at myself as a writer; I am a storyteller.
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In my experience an appreciative letter from a fellow writer means a lot.
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There are actors who can pull of a writer's lines; I am not competent enough to do that.
