Writer Quotes
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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 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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Mo Yan is the Chinese equivalent of the Soviet Russian apparatchik writer Mikhail Sholokhov: a patsy of the regime.
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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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The writer of stories or of novels settles on men and imitates them; he exhausts the possibilities of his characters.
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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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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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Understand, I had absolutely no interest in writing; I wanted to be a Writer.
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The writer of prose can only step aside when the poet passes.
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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'm good at being by myself. I guess if you're a writer you get used to that.
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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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It was Nate Monaster who encouraged me to be a writer.
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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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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 never intended to be a professional writer; as the story developed, the one thing I had in my hopes was that this would be something tangible to separate me from the nameless, numbered masses.
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I was a writer for hire. I wrote to pay the bills.
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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'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 am a Moroccan writer of French expression.
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I am not a director or a writer, but a filmmaker.
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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.
