Writer Quotes
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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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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 am hard-pressed to find a successful writer who doesn't have a similar story to mine - transformation through the public library.
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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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If the public likes you, you're good. Shakespeare was a common, down-to-earth writer in his day.
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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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As a writer I'm merely a journalist who has learned to write better than others.
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A writer is a reader moved to emulation.
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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 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.
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In my next incarnation, I want to be a writer.
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I'm a writer first and a singer second.
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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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A writer is someone who has taught his mind to misbehave.
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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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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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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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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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I was never a wet-eyed, passionate writer; I was always a policeman.
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I'm a writer, not a genre.
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I imagined being a famous writer would be like being like Jane Austen.
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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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The meeting of writer and reader is an intimate act, and it properly takes place in private.
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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.
