Writer Quotes
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Lizzy Weiss is such a great writer, and she really writes for the performances.
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You don't really learn how to write songs; you learn to develop as a writer, and you get to meet lots of musicians and figure out what kind of sound you want. You have the time to just develop and try different styles, and that's what I did.
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You become a good writer just as you become a good carpenter: by planing down your sentences.
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Ignorance is bliss as a writer, I think.
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I'm a failed musician rather than a successful writer.
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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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The Revelation was my master's project, and after I finished it, I thought I'd send it off to a publisher and within a year or so be a rich and famous writer. Two years later I finally sold it. For a whopping $4,000. A year after that, it finally came out. Which explains why there are all those terrible jobs on my resume!
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The writer of originality, unless dead, is always shocking, scandalous; novelty disturbs and repels.
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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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There is maybe a cynicism because of my past as a writer.
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There's a certain grain of stupidity that the writer of fiction can hardly do without, and this is the quality of having to stare, of not getting the point at once. The longer you look at one object, the more of the world you see in it; and it's well to remember that the serious fiction writer always writes about the whole world.
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I’m more of an organic writer, I like building things from the bottom, from scratch.
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A writer who can't write in a grammerly manner better shut up shop.
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The keyhole is my lens as a writer.
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I doubt if the texture of Southern life is any more grotesque than that of the rest of the nation, but it does seem evident that the Southern writer is particularly adept at recognizing the grotesque; and to recognize the grotesque, you have to have some notion of what is not grotesque and why.
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I only write music for myself, I don't try and appeal to anyone else.
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I have an editor in my head, that's why I can't read Harry Potter, because Rowling is such a lousy writer.
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Nobody's safe around 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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If you can be anything else but a writer, be it.
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If a single writer in a country is in chains, then there are some links of that chain that binds us all.
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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.
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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.
