Writer Quotes
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A perfect writer would make words sing, dance, kiss, do the male and female act, bear children, weep, bleed, rage, stab, steal, fire cannon, steer ships, sack cities, charge with cavalry or infantry, or do anything that man or woman or the natural powers can do.
Walt Whitman
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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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Great historians can make the discovery of the real story more exciting than the romantic myth. Stacy Schiff, a great historian as well as a wonderful writer, peels away the layers to reveal the true Cleopatraa much more interesting woman than the Hollywood version and, as it turns out, a formidable queen after all.
Evan Thomas
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I'm an accidental writer.
William P. Young
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Every writer making a secondary world wishes in some measure to be a real maker, or hopes that he is drawing on reality: hopes that the peculiar quality of this secondary world (if not all the details) are derived from Reality, or are flowing into it.
J. R. R. Tolkien
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Medicine involves dealing with people who are going through changes and cycles, often people trapped in bodies that are going out from under them. Spending time with them lets you think their way, gives you insights as a writer.
Ethan Canin
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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.
Charlie Jane Anders
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If the public likes you, you're good. Shakespeare was a common, down-to-earth writer in his day.
Frank Morrison Spillane
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The most important thing for a writer is to be locked in a study.
Erica Jong
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When you're editing, you want to be the perfect appreciator, not another writer.
Joseph Kanon
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The habit of writing clearly soon comes to the writer who is a severe critic to himself.
Anthony Trollope
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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