Writer Quotes
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Doors lead to things and I've never met one I haven't wanted to open.
Kate Morton
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Being a fiction writer makes you someone who works with irresponsibility.
Orhan Pamuk
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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.
S. E. Hinton
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I am a Moroccan writer of French expression.
Tahar Ben Jelloun
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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.
Isaac Bashevis Singer
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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.
Rabindranath Maharaj
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I really wanted to be a writer.
Nancy Meyers
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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.
Omari Hardwick
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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.
Flannery O'Connor
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I am trying to concentrate on books. You know, I love Dostoevsky; he's my favourite writer.
Irina Shayk
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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.
Laura Moser
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I don't write tracts, I write novels. I'm not a preacher, I'm a fiction writer.
Ursula K. Le Guin
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The writer can choose what he writes about but he cannot choose what he is able to make live.
Flannery O'Connor
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The writer is more concerned to know than to judge.
W. Somerset Maugham
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Understand, I had absolutely no interest in writing; I wanted to be a Writer.
Kate DiCamillo
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The writer in America isn't part of the culture of this country. He's like a fine dog. People like him around, but he's of no use.
William Faulkner
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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.
Donald Davis
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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.
Evan Daugherty
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A writer wants something more than money for his work: he wants permanence.
A. A. Milne
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I started as a writer for magazines, and soon they asked me to illustrate my stories. I started from the bottom of the bottom. And I climbed the stairs, one by one.
Carine Roitfeld
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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.
Ralph Steadman
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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.
Haruki Murakami
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I always felt that I was a writer, that was what I had to do.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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I was never a wet-eyed, passionate writer; I was always a policeman.
Joseph Wambaugh