Writer Quotes
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Being a writer was never a choice, it was an irresistible compulsion.
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I wouldn't be a writer if I couldn't tell the truth.
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As a writer, you sit around a computer all day, and it's too easy to open another tab and keep Rotten Tomatoes there.
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A big reason I'd spent my career as a writer and not a public speaker is that I am a person who refines my worldview in a silent room, waiting for my thoughts to arrange themselves on the screen before me.
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The Fiction Writer's Co-op has 51 members, from celebrated NYT bestsellers to promising newcomers, and a waiting list.
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I've experienced writer's block, but never for more than a few days.
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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 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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A writer wants something more than money for his work: he wants permanence.
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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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Understand, I had absolutely no interest in writing; I wanted to be a Writer.
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The writer of stories or of novels settles on men and imitates them; he exhausts the possibilities of his characters.
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When I see things in the world that leap out at me, I want to make use of them in fiction. Maybe every writer does that. It just depends on what you claim or appropriate as yours.
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I began running on an everyday basis after I became a writer. As being a writer requires sitting at a desk for hours a day, without getting some exercise you'd quickly get out of shape and gain weight, I figured.
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Poetry is almost like my foundation for everything. I almost feel I am a better actor and writer because of it.
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Nobody ever calls me a soccer-playing writer, even though I play soccer and it's part of who I am.
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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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Being a fiction writer makes you someone who works with irresponsibility.
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I was a writer for hire. I wrote to pay the bills.
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If you would be a reader, read; if a writer, write.
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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.
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The writer of prose can only step aside when the poet passes.
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One has the responsibility to oneself, to the writer, director and the people who put up the money, to put out the best of what one has experienced and understood about the human condition as it relates to the role one has been hired to portray.
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I am not a director or a writer, but a filmmaker.
