Writer Quotes
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I've thought of becoming a photographer! To save my talent as a writer.
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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 write tracts, I write novels. I'm not a preacher, I'm a fiction writer.
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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.
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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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Cult writer. It's a weird term because it's complimentary but condescending at the same time.
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The writer is more concerned to know than to judge.
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Nobody ever got started on a career as a writer by exercising good judgment, and no one ever will, either, so the sooner you break the habit of relying on yours, the faster you will advance.
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I'm a very conceptual writer.
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There's many things that I am. And all of those things come together at some point. If somebody wants to limit me, you know and they'll say, 'Well, this is Walter Mosley, the mystery writer.' I don't like that. Because I do many things.
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The real writer is one who really writes.
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I'm either going to be a writer or a bum.
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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.
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If a writer stops observing he is finished. But he does not have to observe consciously nor think how it will be useful. Perhaps that would be true at the beginning. But later everything he sees goes into the great reserve of things he knows or has seen.
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Jacqueline Rose was so wonderful in so many ways, and I was really blessed to be her daughter. Of all the things I am because of her - there's no question: I am a writer because of her love of books.
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I didn't know how to be a writer. But I thought, 'I can do this.'
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If you love a young writer, maybe the best thing you can do is give them a little bit of space.
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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.
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There are two sides to me. One is the writer. That's a savage person who looks at everything as a story and, you know, wants to use real life in his books. The other part is the Midwesterner, who, you know, wants to say nice things about people and be polite.
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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've always looked to that play, 'Virginia Woolf,' for a cue - as far as any cue I might need as an actor for inspiration or as a writer.
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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.
