Writer Quotes
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... we made much less happy by the kindness of a great writer, which strictly speaking we find only in his books, than we suffer from the hostility of a woman whom we have not chosen for her intelligence, but whom we cannot stop ourselves from loving.
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I think when you're a writer most of what you read influences you. The rhythms get into your head.
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If you're a writer, you don't serve genres. Genres serve you. Like, if you're writing a science fiction story set on a spaceship, you don't have to have someone thrown out an airlock.
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I'm not a very good writer. I'm working at it.
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I don't think being a lawyer is more or less valuable than being a writer.
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I was never a writer.
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The writer will write in his or her words, but the readers, even when they are not reading you, will take it elsewhere entirely.
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What I'd like to be is a unique writer who's different from everybody else. I want to be a writer who tells stories unlike other writers'.
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I don't think any writer is a friend to the reader if he or she is not funny.
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Really the writer doesn't want success. . . . He knows he has a short span of life, that the day will come when he must pass through the wall of oblivion, and he wants to leave a scratch on that wall - Kilroy was here - that somebody a hundred, or a thousand years later will see.
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I like being married to another writer. You get to trade ideas. You get to talk shop. You get to complain. You get to gossip. And you don't have to explain why you're in such a bad mood when your work isn't going well.
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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.
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As an actor, the thing I want to do to an audience is always be ahead of them and always be surprising in the work without deviating from the writer's intention.
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I think it's hard to make a living as a writer, but I think it's hard to work at McDonald's too.... I think the commitment is to get up everyday and say, "I'm a writer, therefore what I'm supposed to do today is write." And to do that, and to do that and to do that.
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The writer gleans wind scraps; he listens wherever he can. Each day is full of instances; what counts, as with all stimuli, is the sympathetic response.
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I firmly believe that there is no better thriller writer than Harlan Coben.
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Someone who does not write books, who thinks a lot, and who lives in unsatisfying society will usually be a good letter- writer.
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I realized early on that if I became an actor, I could play a writer and a sculptor and a painter and be all the things you just don't have time to be in your lifetime. I could get to learn about all of them.
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Writer? A complimentary term to conceal one’s insanities.
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As a writer, you want to go somewhere else sometimes. You want to vary the terrain that you're exploring.
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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.
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I have no formal training as a writer at all, not even a single English class in college.
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By the time I would have graduated, at 22, I was a writer and featured performer on Saturday Night Live.
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As I found again and again as a writer, when you're completely honest about something, people respond to that.
