Writer Quotes
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In my experience an appreciative letter from a fellow writer means a lot.
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Well I could have been just a writer. I had been a hair dresser. I could have stuck with that.
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I've never experienced writer's block. When it's going really well, my body temperature goes up, and I'm flushed. I get quite delirious.
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My favorite short-story writer is John Cheever.
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I was always a writer – working on campaigns was never a profession for me. It was something I did on the side, really, so the trajectory hasn't been a political operative who likes to dabble in writing and finds himself into stumbling on film and TV – that was always my goal.
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I don't think that the writer is regarded as a freak by Americans.
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I don't go around thinking about regret; regret doesn't consume me as a person... I'm not certain about whether any writer, any artist, any musician, can write without regret, so I don't think perhaps it's even particularly Southern.
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The idea that it is necessary to go to a university in order to become a successful writer . . . is one of those fantasies that surround authorship.
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I am trying to concentrate on books. You know, I love Dostoevsky; he's my favourite writer.
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I'm a writer more than I am a talker.
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The writer is the engineer of the human soul.
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Television is a great job for a writer in the way that movies used to be, way before my time. Back when writers in Hollywood were on staff or under contract at any given studio and you'd write movie scripts and then the movies would get made within a few weeks, such that you could be a working writer in the movie business back in the '30s and '40s and '50s and have a hand in writing five or six movies a year that actually got produced. The only thing remotely like that in the 21st century here in Hollywood is working in the TV business.
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I have more to say as a writer than from behind a wok.
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Motown was the mecca. It was every writer's dream to work there.
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Mo Yan is the Chinese equivalent of the Soviet Russian apparatchik writer Mikhail Sholokhov: a patsy of the regime.
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Like every Southern writer, I thought that I needed to write the next 'Gone With the Wind.'
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We all feel that if we have a crazy idea that might get laughed at, there's nothing wrong with seeing if there's a crazy writer out there who agrees with us and can take it to a crazy network and somehow bring something that's a little bit daft and edgy to life.
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The writer in America isn't part of the culture of this country. He's like a fine dog. People like him around, but he's of no use.
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Being a twin, and being my sister's twin, is such a defining part of my life that I wouldn't know how to be who I am, including a writer, without that being somehow at the centre.
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I'm an escapist kind of writer.
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It was Nate Monaster who encouraged me to be a writer.
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I don't look at myself as a writer; I am a storyteller.
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I always wanted to be a scientist. I don't really have any writer friends.
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Memory is not particularly linear - it is associative, repetitive, subjective and porous. But the writer needs to convey disorder and dysfunction without making the novel itself disorderly or dysfunctional.
