Writer Quotes
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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 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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I'm a very conceptual writer.
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Any writer who gives a reader a pleasurable experience is doing every other writer a favor because it will make the reader want to read other books. I am all for it.
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Acting is just common sense. It isn't hard if you put yourself aside and just do what the writer wrote.
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I am, after all, a thriller writer. I routinely delve into the darkest chambers of the human heart. I've written about murder, kidnapping, depravity, horror, violence, and disfigurement.
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I didn't know how to be a writer. But I thought, 'I can do this.'
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I love being a writer. I don't really want to do anything else!
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(As) a director who is a writer, I have respect for writers, so I'm less likely to step on an idea or a line.
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I know I'm not a great writer. I'm an extremely gifted oral communicator, but when it comes to writing, I'm just a beginner.
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Who here wants to be a writer?' I asked. Everyone in the room raised his hand. 'Why the hell aren't you home writing?' I said, and left the stage.
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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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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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If the would-be writer studies people in their everyday lives and discovers how to make his characters in their quieter moods interesting to his readers, he will have learned far more than he can ever learn from the constant presentation of crises.
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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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I'm a writer. I'm not an actress.
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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 imagined being a famous writer would be like being like Jane Austen.
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As a writer, the best mindset is to be unafraid.
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His style is chaos illumined by flashes of lightning. As a writer he has mastered everything except language.
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In order to be a good writer, you've got to be a bad boss. Self-discipline and stamina are the two major arms in a writer's arsenal.
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I'm a songwriter; that's where it starts. I love writing with someone that shares that same feeling of accomplishment. I'll play music for my fans as long as they'll listen, but I fancy myself as a writer first.
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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 knew I wanted to be a writer before I knew that being a writer was possible.
