Writer Quotes
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Joseph Mattson is a monster of a writer.
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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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Anyone who can only write about themselves or their life experiences, in my mind, isn't a very good writer.
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As a writer, you have control of the words you put on the page. But once that manuscript leaves your hand, you give control to the reader. As a director, you are limited by everything: weather, budget, and egos.
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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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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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If I tell a hotel I'm a travel writer, I can't get out of there without spending a few hours looking at every single room!
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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.
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The familiar writer is apt to be his own satirist. Out of his own mouth is he judged.
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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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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, you want to go somewhere else sometimes. You want to vary the terrain that you're exploring.
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Be prepared to work hard to be a writer.
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Literary theories will not make a writer write.
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There's a great social component to being a writer, to being an artist.
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Bucky Katt: A bad writer is just a good writer with writer's block.
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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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I didn't know I was really a writer until I read it in the New York Times. And then I thought, "Oh my god, maybe I can really do this". That was a review of "Margaret."
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I am a writer. It's like a third arm to me.
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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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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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As a writer who has collaborated on projects, you give your life over to that project.
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The most important thing for a writer is to be locked in a study.
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It's a challenge for any writer to write beyond what he knows. You get material, adapt it, and do the best you can with it.
