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.
Flannery O'Connor -
There is maybe a cynicism because of my past as a writer.
Ryan Tedder OneRepublic
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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.
Ted Allen -
A writer is someone who has taught his mind to misbehave.
Oscar Wilde -
I knew I wanted to be a writer before I knew that being a writer was possible.
Dani Shapiro -
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.
Leon Uris -
As a writer, the best mindset is to be unafraid.
Malcolm Gladwell -
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.
Maggie Stiefvater
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Each artist or writer who works in Venice comes to believe that the city yields its most special secret to him or her alone.
Erica Jong -
A painter paints, a musician plays, a writer writes - but a movie actor waits.
Mary Astor -
A writer is a reader moved to emulation.
Saul Bellow -
As a writer, I've always been somebody who's been productive and hustled hard.
Adam Mansbach -
Believe it or not, in 1969 the French writer Georges Perec wrote a palindromic story that was 500 words long! The whole story reads the same backwards as forwards.
Ursula Dubosarsky -
In my next incarnation, I want to be a writer.
Fidel Castro
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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.
Walter Jon Williams -
At the best and even unexpurgated, diaries give a distorted or one-sided portrait of the writer.
Leonard Woolf -
I haven't been the kind of writer about whom book-length academic studies have been written.
Manuel Puig -
I don't have any real goals except to follow one good sentence with another... I'm not the kind of writer who has a map.
Melissa Bank -
I'm a failed musician rather than a successful writer.
Irvine Welsh -
I'm a writer, and I will write what I want to write.
Joanne Rowling
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The fiction writer has to engage in a continual examination of conscience. He has to be aware of the freak in himself.
Flannery O'Connor -
There's many things that I am. And all of those things come together at some point. If somebody wants to limit me, you know and they'll say, 'Well, this is Walter Mosley, the mystery writer.' I don't like that. Because I do many things.
Walter Mosley -
I am not a good enough writer to have an agenda or come up with a message and try to put it into a song. It's more like you write what comes to you... You try to reflect the mood of the songs.
Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam -
Nobody's safe around a writer.
Lanford Wilson