Writer Quotes
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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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The writer is more concerned to know than to judge.
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Never underestimate the narcissism of a writer.
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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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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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I'm either going to be a writer or a bum.
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I'm a very conceptual writer.
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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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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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A writer wants something more than money for his work: he wants permanence.
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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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I'm not an autobiographical writer, but I am a writer who deals with human emotion on all levels.
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I knew that I wanted to be a writer even before I knew exactly what being a writer entailed.
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The real writer is one who really writes.
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I was never a wet-eyed, passionate writer; I was always a policeman.
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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.
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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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I had never really thought of myself as a writer; any writing I had done was just to give myself something to draw.
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My family didn't like me going on the stage, and they didn't much like my being a writer, either.
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I never did write a biography, and I don't exactly know how to set about it; you see I have to be accurate and keep to the facts, a most difficult thing for a writer of fiction.
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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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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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It's possible to do both as a writer - to engage and have a family and all that good stuff - and I chose not to for the sake of the career.
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I didn't know how to be a writer. But I thought, 'I can do this.'
