Writer Quotes
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A writer wants something more than money for his work: he wants permanence.
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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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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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The real writer is one who really writes.
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The writer can choose what he writes about but he cannot choose what he is able to make live.
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I'm a writer and this is what I love to do.
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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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The writer of stories or of novels settles on men and imitates them; he exhausts the possibilities of his characters.
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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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One of the inspirations for my becoming a writer was the baseball board game Strat-O-Matic.
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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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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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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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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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I am a Moroccan writer of French expression.
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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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If I really considered myself a writer, I wouldn't be writing screenplays. I'd be writing novels.
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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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I'm either going to be a writer or a bum.
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The idea that it is necessary to go to a university in order to become a successful writer . . . is one of those fantasies that surround authorship.
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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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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 haven't given any thought to collaborating with my sisters. It would be great fun. My daughter Molly is a wonderful writer - someday I'd love to collaborate with her.
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Being a writer was never a choice, it was an irresistible compulsion.
