Writer Quotes
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I think as a writer one of the benefits is that you can put things that you're interested in into your books. I always have put a lot of food and restaurants because I was a waitress and I love to eat.
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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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If you're a writer, and you write fiction, that's not all you read.
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If you don't want to be in a story, don't know a writer.
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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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Great historians can make the discovery of the real story more exciting than the romantic myth. Stacy Schiff, a great historian as well as a wonderful writer, peels away the layers to reveal the true Cleopatraa much more interesting woman than the Hollywood version and, as it turns out, a formidable queen after all.
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I'm not a very good writer. I'm working at it.
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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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I feel it's very important to let individual writers' voices come through. But the character has to be consistent.
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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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The writer's language is to some degree the product of his own action; he is both the historian and the agent of his own language.
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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.
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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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Don’t be timid. You’re a writer, use your role, test it, make something of it. These are decisive times, everything is turning upside down. Participate, be present. And begin with the scum in your area, put their backs to the wall.
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If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot.
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Writing is physical work. It's sweaty work. You just can't will yourself to become a good writer. You really have to work at it.
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I suspect that every writer is secretly writing for someone.
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You can't be beautiful and a writer, because to be a writer you have to be the one doing the looking; if you're beautiful people will be looking at you.
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There is no greater fraud or bore than the writer who has acquired the art of saying nothing brilliantly.
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The maturing process of becoming a writer is akin to that of a harlot. First you do it for love, then for a few friends, and finally only for money.
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A writer's work often reflects what he or she has been exposed to in life; experiences which are the groundwork of a poem or a story.
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I didn't want to be a writer, but I became one. And now I have many readers, in many countries. I think that's a miracle. So I think I have to be humble regarding this ability. I'm proud of it and I enjoy it, and it is strange to say it this way, but I respect it.
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You like to write. It's the single most important quality for someone who wants to be a writer. But not in itself enough.
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It's not like being a writer is a very lucrative career, but you know, you just know when you've found what you're really meant to do.
