Writer Quotes
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I'm a writer, so I interview people all the time, and I think of it as being a very creative process. Giving interviews is actually one of the most creative parts of the film promotion process.
Aaron Rose
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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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As I found again and again as a writer, when you're completely honest about something, people respond to that.
Euny Hong
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If you don't want to be in a story, don't know a writer.
Ethan Mordden
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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
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Without the local library in my neighborhood, I don’t think I would have grown up to be a writer or a teacher.
Sharon Draper
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A writer’s life is in his work, and that is the place to find him.
Joyce Carol Oates
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The writer doesn't need economic freedom. All he needs is a pencil and some paper.
William Faulkner
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When a novelist has “something to say,” they mean a message. It has political connotations, or a religious message, or a moral prescription. It means “commitment,” as used by Sartre and other fellow-travelers. They are saying that the writer has a world view, a sort of truth that he wishes to communicate, and that his writing has an ulterior significance. I am against this.
Alain Robbe-Grillet
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I think the internet is a great marketing tool--but marketing is not my job. I'm a writer. My job is to write novels.
Bentley Little
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When you're editing, you want to be the perfect appreciator, not another writer.
Joseph Kanon
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I think that's part of being a comedy writer. You have to be confident. If you're sitting around worrying about, like, oh my God, what are people going to think, then you're not writing comedy. You have to write what makes you laugh, and then the world hopefully laughs as well.
David Mandel
