Writer Quotes
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I wouldn't be a writer if I couldn't tell the truth.
Jenny Mollen -
I've thought of becoming a photographer! To save my talent as a writer.
August Strindberg
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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.
Rachel Kushner -
I'm good at being by myself. I guess if you're a writer you get used to that.
Chuck Klosterman -
I always felt that I was a writer, that was what I had to do.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon -
I have more to say as a writer than from behind a wok.
Eddie Huang -
I'm an escapist kind of writer.
Maeve Binchy -
If you would be a reader, read; if a writer, write.
Epictetus
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I am more of a suspense writer. A mystery writer solves mysteries. I am a 'high suspense' writer.
Iris Johansen -
I am not a director or a writer, but a filmmaker.
Frances McDormand -
If you are a good writer - and I think I am - you are able to handle any kind of group and imagine their lives.
Earl Hamner, Jr. -
There is no writer's block in a newsroom. There's only unemployment block.
Carl Hiaasen -
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.
Ice Cube -
I started as a writer for magazines, and soon they asked me to illustrate my stories. I started from the bottom of the bottom. And I climbed the stairs, one by one.
Carine Roitfeld
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I was a writer for hire. I wrote to pay the bills.
Damien Chazelle -
I never did write a biography, and I don't exactly know how to set about it; you see I have to be accurate and keep to the facts, a most difficult thing for a writer of fiction.
Elizabeth Gaskell -
I really wanted to be a writer.
Nancy Meyers -
It was Nate Monaster who encouraged me to be a writer.
Gary David Goldberg -
I don't look at myself as a writer; I am a storyteller.
Vikas Swarup -
When I was a little boy, they called me a liar, but now that I am grown up, they call me a writer.
Isaac Bashevis Singer
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The real writer is one who really writes.
Marge Piercy -
A writer wants something more than money for his work: he wants permanence.
A. A. Milne -
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.
William Faulkner -
I am an artist and have no right buggering about with verbs and split infinitives, which is what being a writer says to me.
Ralph Steadman