Writer Quotes
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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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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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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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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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If a writer doesn't generate hostility, he is dead.
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I'm a writer more than I am a talker.
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I don't look at myself as a writer; I am a storyteller.
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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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In my experience an appreciative letter from a fellow writer means a lot.
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I have more to say as a writer than from behind a wok.
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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 think I became a writer because I didn't know of anything else to do. Maybe some incident from my childhood influenced me.
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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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Mo Yan is the Chinese equivalent of the Soviet Russian apparatchik writer Mikhail Sholokhov: a patsy of the regime.
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I'm an escapist kind of 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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I always wanted to be a scientist. I don't really have any writer friends.
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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 you would be a reader, read; if a writer, write.
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The writer is the engineer of the human soul.
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I'm a writer and this is what I love to do.
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I wouldn't be a writer if I couldn't tell the truth.
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If you are a good writer - and I think I am - you are able to handle any kind of group and imagine their lives.
