Writer Quotes
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I was never a wet-eyed, passionate writer; I was always a policeman.
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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 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 really wanted to be a writer.
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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.
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I've experienced writer's block, but never for more than a few days.
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A writer wants something more than money for his work: he wants permanence.
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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 don't write tracts, I write novels. I'm not a preacher, I'm a fiction writer.
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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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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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The writer of stories or of novels settles on men and imitates them; he exhausts the possibilities of his characters.
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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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Being a writer was never a choice, it was an irresistible compulsion.
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I am a Moroccan writer of French expression.
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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 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.
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I always felt that I was a writer, that was what I had to do.
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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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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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I'm either going to be a writer or a bum.
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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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Being a fiction writer makes you someone who works with irresponsibility.
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It took me ten minutes to write this very sentence. I'm no writer. This is not my calling.
