Writer Quotes
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Memory is not particularly linear - it is associative, repetitive, subjective and porous. But the writer needs to convey disorder and dysfunction without making the novel itself disorderly or dysfunctional.
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Creative non-fiction is such a liberating genre because it allows the non-fiction writer, whether he or she be journalist or essayist, to use all of the techniques of the fiction writer and all of the ideas, creative approaches, that fiction writers get a chance to use, but they have to use it in a true story.
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It was Nate Monaster who encouraged me to be a writer.
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I've experienced writer's block, but never for more than a few days.
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The Fiction Writer's Co-op has 51 members, from celebrated NYT bestsellers to promising newcomers, and a waiting list.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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The writer of prose can only step aside when the poet passes.
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Understand, I had absolutely no interest in writing; I wanted to be a Writer.
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Being a fiction writer makes you someone who works with irresponsibility.
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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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Nobody ever calls me a soccer-playing writer, even though I play soccer and it's part of who I am.
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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'm good at being by myself. I guess if you're a writer you get used to that.
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I was a writer for hire. I wrote to pay the bills.
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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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A writer wants something more than money for his work: he wants permanence.
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If you would be a reader, read; if a writer, write.
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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.
