Writer Quotes
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I know I am a writer; it is the only thing I am sure of.
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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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In my experience an appreciative letter from a fellow writer means a lot.
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I always knew I wanted to be a writer.
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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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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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If a writer doesn't generate hostility, he is dead.
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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 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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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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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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The writer of prose can only step aside when the poet passes.
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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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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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If you would be a reader, read; if a writer, write.
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I wouldn't be a writer if I couldn't tell the truth.
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I was never a wet-eyed, passionate writer; I was always a policeman.
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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.
