Writer Quotes
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Understand, I had absolutely no interest in writing; I wanted to be a Writer.
Kate DiCamillo
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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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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.
Alan Alda
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I really wanted to be a writer.
Nancy Meyers
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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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Being a fiction writer makes you someone who works with irresponsibility.
Orhan Pamuk
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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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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 don't remember ever having writer's block. If I sit in there for four hours, I'll usually have something.
Randy Newman
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A writer starts out, I think, wanting to be a transfiguring agent, and ends up usually just making contact, contact with other human beings. This, unsurprisingly, is not enough.
Joy Williams
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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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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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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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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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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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The writer is more concerned to know than to judge.
W. Somerset Maugham
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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.
Linda Ronstadt
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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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At the best and even unexpurgated, diaries give a distorted or one-sided portrait of the writer.
Leonard Woolf
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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 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