Writer Quotes
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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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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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I know I am a writer; it is the only thing I am sure of.
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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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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'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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I always knew I wanted to be a writer.
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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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The writer of prose can only step aside when the poet passes.
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If a writer doesn't generate hostility, he is dead.
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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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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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Motown was the mecca. It was every writer's dream to work there.
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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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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'm an escapist kind of writer.
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Doors lead to things and I've never met one I haven't wanted to open.
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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 have more to say as a writer than from behind a wok.
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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.
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If you would be a reader, read; if a writer, write.
