Writer Quotes
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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.
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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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There's a powerful magic about being a writer that I still marvel at.
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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.
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The most important thing for a writer is to be locked in a study.
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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.
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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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Joseph Mattson is a monster of a writer.
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I love being able to be a writer. That's what I moved to New York to be.
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Good art can come out of thieves, bootleggers, or horse swipes. People really are afraid to find out just how much hardship and poverty they can stand. They are afraid to find out how tough they are. Nothing can destroy the good writer. The only thing that can alter the good writer is death. Good ones don't have time to bother with success or getting rich. Success is feminine and like a woman; if you cringe before her, she will override you. So the way to treat her is to show her the back of your hand. Then maybe she will do the crawling.
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Like the weaver, the writer works on the wrong side of his material. He has only to do with the language, and it is thus that he suddenly finds himself surrounded by sense.
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There's a great social component to being a writer, to being an artist.
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If they don't read, if they don't love reading; if they don't find themselves compulsively reading, I don't think they're really a writer.
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The writer, when he is also an artist, is someone who admits what others don't dare reveal.
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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.
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As a writer who has collaborated on projects, you give your life over to that project.
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The key to being a wonderful writer is not to write. You just get out of the way. Leave room for God to walk in the room. And when I write something that I know is right, I get on my knees and say 'thank you.'
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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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I have no formal training as a writer at all, not even a single English class in college.
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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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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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Sit down and put down everything that comes into your head and then you're a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff's worth, without pity, and destroy most of it.
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Bucky Katt: A bad writer is just a good writer with writer's block.
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It's always been hard to call myself a writer. I think a part of me still thinks it's too good to be true.
