Writer Quotes
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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 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 am more of a suspense writer. A mystery writer solves mysteries. I am a 'high suspense' writer.
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I had no real idea I was going to become a writer. It was just a game for me. I just liked pretending, daydreaming and imagining.
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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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There is no writer's block in a newsroom. There's only unemployment block.
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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 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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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.
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I always knew I wanted to be a writer.
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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.
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Being a fiction writer makes you someone who works with irresponsibility.
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I am an artist and have no right buggering about with verbs and split infinitives, which is what being a writer says to me.
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I always felt that I was a writer, that was what I had to do.
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Doors lead to things and I've never met one I haven't wanted to open.
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As an artist, as an actor, as a writer, you have to use what's personal to you. You have to be personal about your work; otherwise, it doesn't ring true.
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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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At the best and even unexpurgated, diaries give a distorted or one-sided portrait of the writer.
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I don't remember ever having writer's block. If I sit in there for four hours, I'll usually have something.
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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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Never underestimate the narcissism of a writer.
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A writer will write with or without a movement; but at the same time, for Chicano, lesbian, gay and feminist writers-anybody writing against the grain of Anglo misogynist culture-political movements are what have allowed our writing to surface from the secret places in our notebooks into the public sphere.
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Tennessee Williams is an incredible writer for women because, in many ways, his women characters are him. He writes so passionately.
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I'm a very conceptual writer.
