Writer Quotes
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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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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.
Sarah Dessen
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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.
Niall Williams
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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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It is especially taboo for a wine writer to admit that he or she likes the buzz. But wine is a full sensory experience. It's not just tasting notes.
Natalie MacLean
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I feel it's very important to let individual writers' voices come through. But the character has to be consistent.
Paul Lieberstein
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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.
Sharon Draper
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A writer's work may be a coded autobiography, but only a very close friend could decipher it.
Nina Bawden
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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.
Wil Haygood
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To some degree, I consider myself a writer, and so I have a strong relationship with literature.
Lee Ranaldo
Sonic Youth
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I suspect that every writer is secretly writing for someone.
Brewster Ghiselin
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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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There is no greater fraud or bore than the writer who has acquired the art of saying nothing brilliantly.
Gertrude Atherton
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A writer needs three things, experience, observation, and imagination, any two of which, at times any one of which, can supply the lack of the others.
William Faulkner
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When you're in medicine - especially when you're a resident in a public hospital - you feel like you're doing your part. But not when you're a writer.
Ethan Canin
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A writer lives, at best, in a state of astonishment.
William Sansom
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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.
Morgan Freeman
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If you're a writer, and you write fiction, that's not all you read.
Esperanza Spalding
