Writer Quotes
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I'm a writer, and I will write what I want to write.
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A painter paints, a musician plays, a writer writes - but a movie actor waits.
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I'm a failed musician rather than a successful writer.
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A writer is a reader moved to emulation.
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As a writer, I've always been somebody who's been productive and hustled hard.
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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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If you can be anything else but a writer, be it.
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Nobody's safe around a writer.
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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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Being pro-life is an essential part of being a writer.
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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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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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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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I've always thought of myself as an organic writer, rather than a cerebral one. I feel my way along as I go, hoping I'll get to the place I intend to reach.
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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 who refuses to explore the darker regions of the heart will never be able to write convincingly about the wonder, the magic and the joy of love for just as goodness cannot be trusted unless it has breathed the same air as evil.
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the finest achievements are those of the pen. ... To me God the Father is a writer.
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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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[The writer] must essentially draw from life as he sees it, lives it, overhears it or steals it, and the truer the writer, perhaps the bigger the blackguard. He lives by biting the hand that feeds him.
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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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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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I only write music for myself, I don't try and appeal to anyone else.
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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.
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Chekhov was as important to me as anybody as a writer.
