Writer Quotes
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It was Nate Monaster who encouraged me to be a writer.
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With the possible exception of God during the writing of the Bible, every writer in history has needed an editor. So do you.
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I really wanted to be a writer.
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When I was a little boy, they called me a liar, but now that I am grown up, they call me a writer.
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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.
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A writer wants something more than money for his work: he wants permanence.
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The writer's secret is not inspiration - for it is never clear where it comes from - it is his stubbornness, his patience.
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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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The real writer is one who really writes.
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I don't write tracts, I write novels. I'm not a preacher, I'm a fiction writer.
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I am trying to concentrate on books. You know, I love Dostoevsky; he's my favourite writer.
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I think I'm a good joke writer. I'm also very scared that the last joke I wrote is the last joke I'll ever write.
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I'm either going to be a writer or a bum.
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I am a Moroccan writer of French expression.
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I'm not an autobiographical writer, but I am a writer who deals with human emotion on all levels.
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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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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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It took me ten minutes to write this very sentence. I'm no writer. This is not my calling.
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Being a fiction writer makes you someone who works with irresponsibility.
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It seems that the fiction writer has a revolting attachment to the poor, for even when he writes about the rich, he is more concerned with what they lack than with what they have.
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I first knew Laurie Lewis by her considerable reputation as a fiddle player and a writer of songs. When an opportunity came along to sing with her I seized it. Getting to know her as a singer and a person has been pure pleasure. Her voice is a rare combination of grit and grace, strength and delicacy. Her stories are always true.
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Since I am first of all a character writer, that character's emotions are as vivid to me as my own. I always begin with an emotion after I have established a character in my mind. I feel what they feel. I guess that is why it comes across so strongly.
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Never underestimate the narcissism of a writer.
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If I really considered myself a writer, I wouldn't be writing screenplays. I'd be writing novels.
