Writer Quotes
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I wouldn't be a writer if I couldn't tell the truth.
Jenny Mollen
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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.
Earl Hamner, Jr.
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If you would be a reader, read; if a writer, write.
Epictetus
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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.
Omari Hardwick
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The writer of stories or of novels settles on men and imitates them; he exhausts the possibilities of his characters.
Salvatore Quasimodo
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Motown was the mecca. It was every writer's dream to work there.
Valerie Simpson
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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.
Sigmund Freud
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I'm good at being by myself. I guess if you're a writer you get used to that.
Chuck Klosterman
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I've thought of becoming a photographer! To save my talent as a writer.
August Strindberg
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Being a writer was never a choice, it was an irresistible compulsion.
Walter Jon Williams
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I've basically worked as a journalist and a writer.
Laura Moser
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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.
William Faulkner
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I am a Moroccan writer of French expression.
Tahar Ben Jelloun
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I am trying to concentrate on books. You know, I love Dostoevsky; he's my favourite writer.
Irina Shayk
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I was a writer for hire. I wrote to pay the bills.
Damien Chazelle
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I am not a director or a writer, but a filmmaker.
Frances McDormand
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It was Nate Monaster who encouraged me to be a writer.
Gary David Goldberg
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One of the inspirations for my becoming a writer was the baseball board game Strat-O-Matic.
H. G. Bissinger
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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.
Tom Skerritt
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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
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Understand, I had absolutely no interest in writing; I wanted to be a Writer.
Kate DiCamillo
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I really wanted to be a writer.
Nancy Meyers
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I am more of a suspense writer. A mystery writer solves mysteries. I am a 'high suspense' writer.
Iris Johansen
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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.
Rachel Kushner