Writer Quotes
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Are you a reader? If you aren't a reader, you might as well forget trying to be a writer.
Wallace Stegner
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It is (to describe it figuratively) as if an author were to make a slip of the pen, and as if this clerical error became conscious of being such. Perhaps this was no error but in a far higher sense was an essential part of the whole exposition. It is, then, as if this clerical error were to revolt against the author, out of hatred for him, were to forbid him to correct it, and were to say, "No, I will not be erased, I will stand as a witness against thee, that thou art a very poor writer."
Soren Kierkegaard
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Anyone who can only write about themselves or their life experiences, in my mind, isn't a very good writer.
Robert Rodriguez
Chingon
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A good writer refuses to be socialized. He insists on his own version of things, his own consciousness. And by doing so he draws the reader's eye from its usual groove into a new way of seeing things.
Bill Barich
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Step out from behind the words. When you're a writer you can imagine that the words speak for you and are you, but they're not. You are this living breathing bad hair day kind of person.
Beth Kephart
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It's a lot easier to make a living as a writer in Hollywood than it was probably 10 years ago, though there's still just as many unemployed people in Hollywood as there ever has been, but there's so many more avenues to sell things, because of digital, and Amazon, and Netflix, and all these different platforms. That's crazy and exciting in a creative way, and we'll see where that all stands five years from now. But on the corporate side, I still see that pendulum swinging back in that other direction, which is a little not comforting.
Ed Brubaker
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A writer lives, at best, in a state of astonishment.
William Sansom
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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.
Sunil Yapa
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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.
Elena Ferrante
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I think of myself as a problem-solver. I want to go in and help the director and the writer to get the best they can out of the text they're working with.
Michael Emerson
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A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.
Susan Sontag
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There's a powerful magic about being a writer that I still marvel at.
Sidney Lumet
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I find it very easy to be alone. I'm a writer, for heaven's sakes!
Simon Mawer
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In Chicago, if you tell someone you're a writer, they look at you suspiciously - as if to say "yeah, right." In New York, people don't question the idea. If you say you're a writer, that's what you are.
Elaine Equi
