Writer Quotes
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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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I've basically worked as a journalist and a writer.
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I wouldn't be a writer if I couldn't tell the truth.
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Motown was the mecca. It was every writer's dream to work there.
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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've thought of becoming a photographer! To save my talent as a writer.
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If I really considered myself a writer, I wouldn't be writing screenplays. I'd be writing novels.
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One of the inspirations for my becoming a writer was the baseball board game Strat-O-Matic.
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I always knew I wanted to be a writer.
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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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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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I was a writer for hire. I wrote to pay the bills.
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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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Being a writer was never a choice, it was an irresistible compulsion.
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I am more of a suspense writer. A mystery writer solves mysteries. I am a 'high suspense' writer.
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It was Nate Monaster who encouraged me to be a writer.
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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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Music is where I have the most creative freedom, but I love producing. To me, that's kind of where all the action is. You get a chance to have your hands in every aspect of a film. From picking a director, sometimes picking a writer, to the actors, the wardrobe, set design, editing, music, and marketing.
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I am not a director or a writer, but a filmmaker.
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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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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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There is no writer's block in a newsroom. There's only unemployment block.
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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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Doors lead to things and I've never met one I haven't wanted to open.
