Writer Quotes
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By his very profession, a serious fiction writer is a vendor of the sensuous particulars of life, a perceiver and handler of things. His most valuable tools are his sense and his memory; what happens in his mind is primarily pictures.
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If you can be anything else but a writer, be it.
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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.
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I think I personally, as a writer, read differently knowing how tough it is to write, knowing how challenging it is to articulate it, to express clearly and economically and with focus and with purpose.
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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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I had never really thought of myself as a writer; any writing I had done was just to give myself something to draw.
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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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You become a good writer just as you become a good carpenter: by planing down your sentences.
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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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A hack writer who would have been considered fourth rate in Europe, who tried out a few of the old proven 'sure-fire' literary skeletons with sufficient local color to intrigue the superficial and the lazy.
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Being pro-life is an essential part of being a writer.
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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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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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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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[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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I think of a writer as a river: you reflect what passes before you.
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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 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'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 only write music for myself, I don't try and appeal to anyone else.
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The keyhole is my lens as a writer.
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Chekhov was as important to me as anybody as 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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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.
