Writer Quotes
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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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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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A writer starts out, I think, wanting to be a transfiguring agent, and ends up usually just making contact, contact with other human beings. This, unsurprisingly, is not enough.
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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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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 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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It took me ten minutes to write this very sentence. I'm no writer. This is not my calling.
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I'm a writer first and a singer second.
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A writer is a reader moved to emulation.
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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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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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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 writer I'm merely a journalist who has learned to write better than others.
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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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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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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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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 haven't been the kind of writer about whom book-length academic studies have been written.
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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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I imagined being a famous writer would be like being like Jane Austen.
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I'm a writer, not a genre.
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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 was never a wet-eyed, passionate writer; I was always a policeman.
