Writer Quotes
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I'm a very conceptual writer.
Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty -
A good writer can simulate a page torn out of somebody's diary, and give you every little voyeuristic thrill you might get from that, but actually tell you a broader story. I think it's a noble idea that it's cathartic to open a vein for everybody to see, but ultimately, you're just getting blood everywhere and making a mess. I like the idea that there are deeper and more meaningful things to talk about than your own misery. But at the same time, there's something really interesting about skirting that line and making it seem like you're doing that.
Will Sheff Okkervil River
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I'm a writer and this is what I love to do.
Gloria Estefan Miami Sound Machine -
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.
Leon Uris -
Nobody ever calls me a soccer-playing writer, even though I play soccer and it's part of who I am.
Rabih Alameddine -
As a writer I'm merely a journalist who has learned to write better than others.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez -
I imagined being a famous writer would be like being like Jane Austen.
Joanne Rowling -
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.
Ernest Hemingway
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The way I usually put it is that as an SF writer, I'm never required to be right.
Karl Schroeder -
I've thought of becoming a photographer! To save my talent as a writer.
August Strindberg -
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.
Randy Houser -
His style is chaos illumined by flashes of lightning. As a writer he has mastered everything except language.
Oscar Wilde -
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.
Vera Brittain -
I am, of course, a frustrated rock star - I'd much rather be a rock star than a writer. Or own a record shop. Still, it's not a bad life, is it? You just sit at a computer and make stuff up.
Ian Rankin
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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.
Walter Kirn -
Lizzy Weiss is such a great writer, and she really writes for the performances.
Vanessa Marano -
(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.
Ben Affleck -
I'm a writer, not a genre.
Carlos Fuentes -
I’m more of an organic writer, I like building things from the bottom, from scratch.
Skip Marley -
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.
Cherrie Moraga
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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.
M. J. Rose -
A writer who can't write in a grammerly manner better shut up shop.
Artemas Ward -
If you can be anything else but a writer, be it.
Kate Braverman -
The writer of originality, unless dead, is always shocking, scandalous; novelty disturbs and repels.
Simone de Beauvoir