Writer Quotes
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I looked back at some high school journals and discovered that I definitely wanted to be a writer, but not necessarily comedy.
Allison Silverman
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I don't think anybody can teach anybody anything. I think that you learn it, but the young writer that is as I say demon-driven and wants to learn and has got to write, he don't know why, he will learn from almost any source that he finds. He will learn from older people who are not writers, he will learn from writers, but he learns it -- you can't teach it.
William Faulkner
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I'm a better writer now because I've worked very hard at getting better. My long-range goal will always be to write better books.
George Pelecanos
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For me, being a writer, you want to communicate with people, but if your goal is that every person is going to love what you do, then you're always going to be disappointed.
Winnie Holzman
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When I'm out and about, I'll text or email myself from my phone. A smart phone is a great tool for a writer.
Steven Hall
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I never set out to be a published writer.
Ethan Canin
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I believe it’s something that happens when one is around art, and when one is close to books: they seep into your system, into your blood, and start to activate something in your life. We start living in the way that some of these characters live, with some sense of their sensibility. It’s almost as if the reader becomes the writer and the writer becomes the reader…
Nilo Cruz
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Write. Remember, people may keep you (or me) from being a published author but no one can stop you from being a writer. All you have to do is write. And keep writing. While you’re working at a career, while you’re raising children, while you’re trout fishing--keep writing! No one can stop you but you.
Katherine Neville
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Being an editor doesn't make you a better writer - or vice versa. The worst thing any editor can do is be in competition with his writer.
Joseph Kanon
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As long as I can remember, I wanted to be a writer.
Michael Easton
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As a writer who has collaborated on projects, you give your life over to that project.
Winnie Holzman
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As an actor, my No. 1 focus was to be on the same page with the writer, director, and producers.
Haaz Sleiman
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The entire Internet, as well as the types of devices represented by the desktop computer, the laptop computer, the iPhone, the iPod, and the iPad, are a continuing inescapable embarrassment to science fiction, and an object lesson in the fallibility of genre writers and their vaunted predictive abilities.
Paul Di Filippo
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Artie is a singer, and I'm a writer and player and a singer. We didn't work together on a creative level and prepare the songs. I did that.
Paul Simon
Simon & Garfunkel
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The existential writer Albert Camus discovered this truth: “In the midst of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.”
Bob Buford
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I think when you're a writer most of what you read influences you. The rhythms get into your head.
Elizabeth Crook
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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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Bausch is a wonderful storyteller. He's a mature writer who has a lot of confidence in the quality of character. He doesn't need to hook you with a sneaky plot and zany characters.
Ethan Canin
