Writer Quotes
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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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I know I am a writer; it is the only thing I am sure of.
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I'm a writer more than I am a talker.
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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'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 a writer doesn't generate hostility, he is dead.
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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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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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In my experience an appreciative letter from a fellow writer means a lot.
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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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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 an escapist kind of writer.
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I don't look at myself as a writer; I am a storyteller.
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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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The writer of prose can only step aside when the poet passes.
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I have more to say as a writer than from behind a wok.
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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 creative writer does the same as the child at play; he creates a world of fantasy which he takes very seriously.
