Writer Quotes
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I can work as a writer, but I wanted to do stand-up.
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I'm not a good photographer, not a good writer. I'm a pretty regular person whose insecurity is so pervasive that it makes me always feel vulnerable.
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The writer of prose can only step aside when the poet passes.
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Creative non-fiction is such a liberating genre because it allows the non-fiction writer, whether he or she be journalist or essayist, to use all of the techniques of the fiction writer and all of the ideas, creative approaches, that fiction writers get a chance to use, but they have to use it in a true story.
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In my experience an appreciative letter from a fellow writer means a lot.
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It's very hard to be a gentleman and a writer.
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My publisher, who was so good as a taster and editor, when she became a writer, lo and behold, it was all this feminine tosh.
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I'm a writer more than I am a talker.
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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 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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If a writer doesn't generate hostility, he is dead.
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I wouldn't be a writer if I couldn't tell the truth.
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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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I've basically worked as a journalist and a writer.
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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.
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I always knew I wanted to be a writer.
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I'm an escapist kind of writer.
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The creative writer does the same as the child at play; he creates a world of fantasy which he takes very seriously.
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I don't remember ever having writer's block. If I sit in there for four hours, I'll usually have something.
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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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Motown was the mecca. It was every writer's dream to work there.
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As an artist, as an actor, as a writer, you have to use what's personal to you. You have to be personal about your work; otherwise, it doesn't ring true.
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I don't look at myself as a writer; I am a storyteller.
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I'm hesitant to ever take on the crest of the veteran. So I don't know who I am to warn the younger writer about the perils to come. I think maybe the most dangerous influence is to think you have all the answers and should be giving counsel.
