Writer Quotes
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Maybe because I began as a writer, I have a good ear for dialogue, and maybe being an English major - and that I also read a lot as a kid - if I hear somebody say something that I think's funny, or I find a situation or story, I'll try to work that into the movie.
Owen Wilson
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I really started considering myself a writer when I was about seven or eight years old. I wrote stories from my dreams and kept them all in a notebook that I still have.
Jennine Capó Crucet
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As long as I can remember, I wanted to be a writer.
Michael Easton
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As a science-fiction writer, I feel my responsibility is to look ahead and see the dangers of what might happen and try to warn people of the potential pitfalls.
Nick Sagan
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It is (to describe it figuratively) as if an author were to make a slip of the pen, and as if this clerical error became conscious of being such. Perhaps this was no error but in a far higher sense was an essential part of the whole exposition. It is, then, as if this clerical error were to revolt against the author, out of hatred for him, were to forbid him to correct it, and were to say, "No, I will not be erased, I will stand as a witness against thee, that thou art a very poor writer."
Soren Kierkegaard
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I never studied writing, but I'd always been a reader and had a secret fantasy about being a writer.
Jon Krakauer
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If you are a nice person and you are a writer, that's two strikes against you.
Brandon Mull
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The meeting of writer and reader is an intimate act, and it properly takes place in private.
Wallace Stegner
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I think as a writer one of the benefits is that you can put things that you're interested in into your books. I always have put a lot of food and restaurants because I was a waitress and I love to eat.
Sarah Dessen
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I went to LA because my parents were there and somebody asked me if I wanted to be in a movie. It was easy, it wasn't easy to do, but I fell into it. I made a living as an actor for a long time, but I didn't think of myself as an actor, I thought I was a writer.
Hampton Fancher
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It's a challenge for any writer to write beyond what he knows. You get material, adapt it, and do the best you can with it.
John Whitney "Whit" Stillman
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For the writer, discovering the work he will write is both like a miracle
and a wound, like the miracle of the wound.
Edmond Jabes