Writer Quotes
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To me, a writer is one of the most important soldiers in the fight for survival of the human race. He must stay at his post in the thick of fire to serve the cause of mankind.
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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 meeting of writer and reader is an intimate act, and it properly takes place in private.
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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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Lizzy Weiss is such a great writer, and she really writes for the performances.
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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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Medicine involves dealing with people who are going through changes and cycles, often people trapped in bodies that are going out from under them. Spending time with them lets you think their way, gives you insights as a writer.
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the finest achievements are those of the pen. ... To me God the Father is a writer.
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I think of a writer as a river: you reflect what passes before you.
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The real writer is one who really writes. Talent is an invention like phlogiston after the fact of fire. Work is its own cure. You have to like it better than being loved.
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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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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.
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It is only a moment here and a moment there that the greatest writer has. Some cognizance of the fact must be taken in your teaching.
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Being pro-life is an essential part of being a writer.
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My dad, being a jingle writer, and my mom, being a jingle singer, they hooked me up with some people when I was a kid that worked with children's jingle singing groups. I used to sing jingles as a kid.
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I’m more of an organic writer, I like building things from the bottom, from scratch.
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There is maybe a cynicism because of my past as a writer.
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THE WRITER can get free of his writing only by using it, that is, by reading oneself. As if the aim of writing were to use what is already written as a launching pad for reading the writing to come. Moreover, what he has written is read in the process, hence constantly modified by his reading. The book is an unbearable totality. I write against a background of facets.
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The writer of originality, unless dead, is always shocking, scandalous; novelty disturbs and repels.
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During my life I have seen, known, and lost too much to be the prey of vain dread; and, as for the hope of immortality, I am as weary of that as I am of gods and kings. For my own sake only I write this; and herein I differ from all other writers, past and to come.
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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.
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Ignorance is bliss as a writer, I think.
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I am a driven writer. I feel guilty if I don't write, not self-indulgent if I do.
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If I were a writer and not a singer in 10 years, I don't know how I'd feel about writing really personal songs and getting someone else to sing them.
