Writer Quotes
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The road to wisdom is paved with excess. The mark of a true writer is their ability to mystify the familiar and familiarize the strange.
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I am a musician before a writer, and a drawer before a writer. When I lose sight of that, which I do, my work tends to suffer.
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A writer once asked what I'd say if I ever met my biggest hater. I paused, thought deeply and said, "Probably 'suk a dog dik, motherfuker.'"
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By the age of four one has experienced nearly everything one needs to be a writer of fiction; love, pain, loss, boredom, rage, guilt and fear of death.
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I'm not sure there's a difference between books that affected the way I see the world and books that influenced me as a writer.
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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 think of myself as a writer with a sense of humour rather than a comedy writer. Happy to tell a story with lots of jokes in it - I wouldn't know how to do jokes without the story.
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Would a writer know how to behave himself with relation td posterity? Let him consider in old books what he finds that he is glad to know, and what omissions he most laments.
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For years, I never really pondered how I came to be a writer from where I came from.
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The habit of writing clearly soon comes to the writer who is a severe critic to himself.
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There's a powerful magic about being a writer that I still marvel at.
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A writer’s life is in his work, and that is the place to find him.
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I always wanted to be some kind of writer - I wrote plays and songs and "books" before I realized living and breathing people still wrote poems.
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I'm better at being a lawyer than I am at being a writer.
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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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I had to decide if I wanted to be known as a writer or a reader. I chose writer.
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In other words, the cultural education of any high-school student should include an introduction to the idea that a writer adapts his writing to ever-changing expressive needs and that a higher or lower note doesn't mean that the singer has changed.
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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.”
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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.
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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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There's a great social component to being a writer, to being an artist.
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When you're in medicine - especially when you're a resident in a public hospital - you feel like you're doing your part. But not when you're a writer.
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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.
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I don't think being a lawyer is more or less valuable than being a writer.
