Writer Quotes
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I am very much afraid that to the fiction writer the fact that we shall always have the poor with us is a source of satisfaction,for it means, essentially, that he will always be able to find someone like himself.
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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, and I will write what I want to write.
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As a writer, the best mindset is to be unafraid.
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I'm a writer. I'm not an actress.
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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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The way I usually put it is that as an SF writer, I'm never required to be right.
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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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The things I wanted to be when I was a kid were an archeologist, because of dinosaur bones; a garbage man, because they got to ride on the side of the trucks; and a writer.
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As a writer, I've always been somebody who's been productive and hustled hard.
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Science fiction readers probably have the gene for novelty, and seem to enjoy a cascade of invention as much as a writer enjoys providing one.
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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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I haven't been the kind of writer about whom book-length academic studies have been written.
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A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity.
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I think pornography is a very rich medium, and I've studied it closely and learned quite a lot as a writer from it.
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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 knew I wanted to be a writer before I knew that being a writer was possible.
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A writer is a reader moved to emulation.
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I had a little epiphany when I was a writer at 'Chicago' magazine. I sat down to dinner at the Ritz-Carlton. Somebody poured a white dessert wine with chocolate cake. It was a wine I would never have expected to make sense. The idea of any wine tasting fabulous with chocolate cake was fascinating to me.
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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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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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The downside of being a writer is you get plenty of time to overthink your life.
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the finest achievements are those of the pen. ... To me God the Father is a writer.
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In my next incarnation, I want to be a writer.
