Writer Quotes
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If you don't want to be in a story, don't know a writer.
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I like being married to another writer. You get to trade ideas. You get to talk shop. You get to complain. You get to gossip. And you don't have to explain why you're in such a bad mood when your work isn't going well.
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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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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 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’s life is in his work, and that is the place to find him.
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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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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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I'm a writer. Now I've started to be on television. I have a big mouth. And I have good TV teeth, they say.
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A writer's work may be a coded autobiography, but only a very close friend could decipher it.
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To some degree, I consider myself a writer, and so I have a strong relationship with literature.
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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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Please write that they were really, really nice - extremely nice - at Immigration. The court where they swore you in, the people were beautiful.
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Are you a reader? If you aren't a reader, you might as well forget trying to be a writer.
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The writer gleans wind scraps; he listens wherever he can. Each day is full of instances; what counts, as with all stimuli, is the sympathetic response.
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There is a natural disposition with us to judge an author's personal character by the character of his works. We find it difficult to understand the common antithesis of a good writer and a bad man.
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I was never a writer.
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If you're a writer, and you write fiction, that's not all you read.
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I feel it's very important to let individual writers' voices come through. But the character has to be consistent.
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What the writer needs is an empty day ahead.
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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.
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I think I'm too lazy a writer to do something like historical fiction. You have to do so much research. I just write what I know.
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I have a problem with writer/directors, personal. I can't work well with both of them on the set, if both of them are giving instructions. Writers tend to be in love with what they wrote. You can't always translate the words into the meaning, sometimes the meaning is better served without the words, difficult to make a writer to try to understand that. It gets, sometimes, tense.
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A baby writer should take inspiration from her predecessors but also find ways to tell her own stories in her own way.
