Writer Quotes
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If you would be a reader, read; if a writer, write.
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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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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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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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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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One of the inspirations for my becoming a writer was the baseball board game Strat-O-Matic.
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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've thought of becoming a photographer! To save my talent as a writer.
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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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Being a fiction writer makes you someone who works with irresponsibility.
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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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At the best and even unexpurgated, diaries give a distorted or one-sided portrait of the writer.
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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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There is no writer's block in a newsroom. There's only unemployment block.
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Never underestimate the narcissism of a writer.
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I always felt that I was a writer, that was what I had to do.
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I always knew I wanted to be a 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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Doors lead to things and I've never met one I haven't wanted to open.
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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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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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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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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.
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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.
