Writer Quotes
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I've thought of becoming a photographer! To save my talent as a writer.
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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 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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One of the inspirations for my becoming a writer was the baseball board game Strat-O-Matic.
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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 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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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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There is no writer's block in a newsroom. There's only unemployment block.
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Being a fiction writer makes you someone who works with irresponsibility.
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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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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 always knew I wanted 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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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 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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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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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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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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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 think I personally, as a writer, read differently knowing how tough it is to write, knowing how challenging it is to articulate it, to express clearly and economically and with focus and with purpose.
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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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Never underestimate the narcissism of a writer.
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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.
