Writer Quotes
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I wouldn't be a writer if I couldn't tell the truth.
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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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The writer in America isn't part of the culture of this country. He's like a fine dog. People like him around, but he's of no use.
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I'm good at being by myself. I guess if you're a writer you get used to that.
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Being a writer was never a choice, it was an irresistible compulsion.
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Motown was the mecca. It was every writer's dream to work there.
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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 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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The writer of stories or of novels settles on men and imitates them; he exhausts the possibilities of his characters.
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I've basically worked as a journalist and a writer.
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I am trying to concentrate on books. You know, I love Dostoevsky; he's my favourite writer.
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If you would be a reader, read; if a writer, write.
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I am not a director or a writer, but a filmmaker.
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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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I really wanted to be a writer.
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I've thought of becoming a photographer! To save my talent as a writer.
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I am a Moroccan writer of French expression.
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Understand, I had absolutely no interest in writing; I wanted to be a Writer.
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I was a writer for hire. I wrote to pay the bills.
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Since I am first of all a character writer, that character's emotions are as vivid to me as my own. I always begin with an emotion after I have established a character in my mind. I feel what they feel. I guess that is why it comes across so strongly.
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I first knew Laurie Lewis by her considerable reputation as a fiddle player and a writer of songs. When an opportunity came along to sing with her I seized it. Getting to know her as a singer and a person has been pure pleasure. Her voice is a rare combination of grit and grace, strength and delicacy. Her stories are always true.
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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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It was Nate Monaster who encouraged me to be a writer.
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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.
