Writer Quotes
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The writer's secret is not inspiration - for it is never clear where it comes from - it is his stubbornness, his patience.
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I'm a writer first and a singer second.
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As a writer I'm merely a journalist who has learned to write better than others.
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I haven't given any thought to collaborating with my sisters. It would be great fun. My daughter Molly is a wonderful writer - someday I'd love to collaborate with her.
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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.
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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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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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A writer is someone who has taught his mind to misbehave.
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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 love being a writer. I don't really want to do anything else!
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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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There are two types of people in this world: Gypsy and Gadge. Which one am I? Neither. I'm a writer
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A novel is a conversation starter, and if the author isn't there for the after-party, both the writer and the reader are missing a lot.
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A hack writer who would have been considered fourth rate in Europe, who tried out a few of the old proven 'sure-fire' literary skeletons with sufficient local color to intrigue the superficial and the lazy.
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I'm a writer, not a genre.
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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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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 imagined being a famous writer would be like being like Jane Austen.
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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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By his very profession, a serious fiction writer is a vendor of the sensuous particulars of life, a perceiver and handler of things. His most valuable tools are his sense and his memory; what happens in his mind is primarily pictures.
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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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A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity.
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I'm a writer, and I will write what I want to write.
