Writer Quotes
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There is maybe a cynicism because of my past as a writer.
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In my next incarnation, I want to be a writer.
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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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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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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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I'm a failed musician rather than a successful writer.
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I think of a writer as a river: you reflect what passes before you.
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Ignorance is bliss as a writer, I think.
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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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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 writer of originality, unless dead, is always shocking, scandalous; novelty disturbs and repels.
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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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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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I only write music for myself, I don't try and appeal to anyone else.
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I've always looked to that play, 'Virginia Woolf,' for a cue - as far as any cue I might need as an actor for inspiration or as a writer.
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Being pro-life is an essential part of being a writer.
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I’m more of an organic writer, I like building things from the bottom, from scratch.
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The keyhole is my lens as a writer.
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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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A writer who can't write in a grammerly manner better shut up shop.
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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 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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The meeting of writer and reader is an intimate act, and it properly takes place in private.
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The political writer, then, is the ultimate optimist, believing people are capable of change and using words as one way to try and penetrate the privatism of our lives.
