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Writer speaks a stench. Votes: 3

Franz Kafka

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Writer's were supposed to be a litte crazy Votes: 3

S. E. Hinton

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Writer's block is only a failure of the ego. Votes: 3

Norman Mailer

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Writers don't retire. I will always be a writer. Votes: 3

Andy Rooney

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Writer's block is for people who have the luxury of time. Votes: 3

Jodi Picoult

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Writer's block is a luxury most people with deadlines don't have. Votes: 3

Diane Ackerman

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Writer's block.. when one curses the blinking cursor on the blank page. Votes: 3

Regina Brett

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Writer's block? Don't worry about it. Either it goes away or you die. Votes: 3

Joe Haldeman

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A Writer is Actor, Creator, Director & Producer Of HIS Life. Ask ME anything. Votes: 3

Nirav Sanchaniya

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Writer's block is a phony, made up, BS excuse for not doing your work. Votes: 3

Jerry Seinfeld

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It always seemed much better to be a writer - a Real Writer - than a successful hack. Votes: 3

Edmund White

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Writer's block is a fancy term made up by whiners so they can have an excuse to drink alcohol. Votes: 3

Steve Martin

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One reason I don't suffer Writer's Block is that I don't wait on the muse, I summon it at need. Votes: 3

Piers Anthony

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Every writer has to find their own way into writing. Votes: 1

Margaret Mahy

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A writer always writes. Votes: 0

Don Roff

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A writer wastes nothing. Votes: 0

F. Scott Fitzgerald

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I'm an accidental writer. Votes: 0

William P. Young

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I'm a very conceptual writer. Votes: 0

Macklemore

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I'm a fairly undisciplined writer. Votes: 0

Neil Gaiman

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Nobody's safe around a writer. Votes: 0

Lanford Wilson

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I'm a matter-of-fact, office-hours writer. Votes: 0

Jim Crace

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I've never had writer's block. Votes: 0

David Byrne

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I'm not a disciplined writer. Votes: 0

Janeane Garofalo

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Sean's a great, great writer. Votes: 0

Robin Wright

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[Hariharan is] an outstanding writer. Votes: 0

J. M. Coetzee

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I'm not a great writer. Votes: 0

E. L. James

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A writer is always working. Votes: 0

William Zinsser

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I like being a writer. Votes: 0

Terry Pratchett

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The writer is all alone. Votes: 0

V. S. Naipaul

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I was never a writer. Votes: 0

Simon Sinek

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You're a writer. Make it up. Votes: 0

David Benioff

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I'm the luckiest writer on earth. Votes: 0

George Michael

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Alan Moore is a prophetic writer. Votes: 0

Gerard Way

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Tim Powers is a brilliant writer. Votes: 0

William Gibson

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I don't believe in writer's block. Votes: 0

Gabrielle Zevin

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Teach the writer, not the writing. Votes: 0

Lucy Calkins

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Fame isn't healthy for a writer. Votes: 0

Kent Haruf

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I've always considered myself a writer. Votes: 0

Patti Smith

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A writer is a controlled schizophrenic. Votes: 0

Edward Albee

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Realism can break a writer's heart. Votes: 0

Salman Rushdie

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Acceptance spells death to a writer. Votes: 0

Arundhati Roy

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George Martin is an incredible writer. Votes: 0

Peter Dinklage

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I haven't got a writer's discipline. Votes: 0

Jim Broadbent

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I am a really writer-oriented actor. Votes: 0

Kevin Costner

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Don't be 'a writer'. Be writing. Votes: 0

William Faulkner

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The successful writer listens to himself. Votes: 0

Frank Herbert

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I'm a better talker than writer. Votes: 0

Jesse Ventura

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I'm an escapist kind of writer. Votes: 0

Maeve Binchy

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A writer is someone who writes! Votes: 0

Pat Schneider

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a writer is a foreign country Votes: 0

Marguerite Duras

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As a writer, you are free. Votes: 0

Ursula K. Le Guin

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Jesse Joyce is a great writer. Votes: 0

Dave Attell

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I'm not mad. I'm a writer. Votes: 0

Peter Milligan

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I am not a consecutive writer. Votes: 0

Dr. Seuss

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I am the worlds laziest writer. Votes: 0

Oscar Peterson

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I don't call myself a writer. Votes: 0

Bruce Boxleitner

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A catless writer is almost inconceivable. Votes: 0

Barbara Holland

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I am a writer of fragments. Votes: 0

Guillermo Cabrera Infante

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Aggression, the writer's main source of energy. Votes: 0

Ted Solotaroff

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My favorite short-story writer is John Cheever Votes: 0

Irwin Shaw

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A writer needs a life of introspection. Votes: 0

Tom Robbins

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The writer Richard Curtis is a genius. Votes: 0

Eric Fellner

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Becoming a writer is about becoming conscious. Votes: 0

Anne Lamott

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Never underestimate the narcissism of a writer. Votes: 0

Elia Kazan

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A writer is supposed to have anonymity. Votes: 0

Joss Whedon

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My favorite short-story writer is John Cheever. Votes: 0

Irwin Shaw

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It's what every writer needs: a daybed. Votes: 0

Vince Flynn

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I began writing as an experimental writer. Votes: 0

Sandra Cisneros

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Truman Capote was a magical, beautiful writer. Votes: 0

Lisa Unger

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A budding writer wants to be encouraged. Votes: 0

Chinua Achebe

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Plots are ... what the writer sees with. Votes: 0

Eudora Welty

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Every writer I know has trouble writing. Votes: 0

Joseph Heller

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I've always been a very prolific writer. Votes: 0

Nanci Griffith

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I really am a very research-oriented writer. Votes: 0

Eric Kripke

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A writer's work is to witness things. Votes: 0

Edward Hoagland

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I'd consider myself a flailing comedy writer. Votes: 0

Benjamin Walker

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An incinerator is a writer's best friend. Votes: 0

Thornton Wilder

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Travel definitely affects me as a writer. Votes: 0

Anthony Doerr

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The writer studies literature, not the world. Votes: 0

Annie Dillard

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Brooklyn is kind of my writer's retreat. Votes: 0

Tracy K. Smith

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I've never been in a writer's room. Votes: 0

Rashida Jones

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You sure about this writer thing son? Votes: 0

Christopher Moore

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If you're a writer, you're always working. Votes: 0

Alan Furst

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I want to be a writer someday. Votes: 0

Andrea Barber

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I'm not much of a joke writer. Votes: 0

Ben Falcone

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A writer must say yes to life. Votes: 0

Natalie Goldberg

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The balls do not make a writer. Votes: 0

Aleksandar Hemon

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I always wanted to be a writer. Votes: 0

Jung Chang

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I really wanted to be a writer. Votes: 0

Nancy Meyers

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I have always been a dark writer. Votes: 0

George R. R. Martin

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The writer works in a lonely way. Votes: 0

Irwin Shaw

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I am a writer, not a transcriber. Votes: 0

Ivan Doig

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Everybody I know is a joke writer. Votes: 0

Ron White

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A writer's mind can never be empty. Votes: 0

Michael Acciarino

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The writer must hew the phantom rock. Votes: 0

Carson McCullers

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Prescription for writer's block: fear of poverty. Votes: 0

Peter Mayle

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Robert Jordan... is a lot of writer Votes: 0

Piers Anthony

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The writer's job is to get naked... Votes: 0

Harry Crews

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I'm not really a mass market writer. Votes: 0

Alan Furst

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The writer considers sayability before anything else. Votes: 0

Mason Cooley

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You become a great writer by writing. Votes: 0

Peter Thiel

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The writer's only responsibility is to his art. Votes: 0

William Faulkner

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Being a bad writer a thousand times first. Votes: 0

Gail Simone

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Being a writer requires an intoxication with language. Votes: 0

Jim Harrison

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I claim to be a conscientiously immoral writer. Votes: 0

George Bernard Shaw

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I do not consider myself a Hispanic writer. Votes: 0

Guillermo Cabrera Infante

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A writer's work is the product of laziness. Votes: 0

Jorge Luis Borges

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I'm not an intellectual, I'm just a writer. Votes: 0

Vanna Bonta

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Ive never seen myself as a fantasy writer-ever. Votes: 0

Jonathan Carroll

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If a writer stops observing, he is finished. Votes: 0

Ernest Hemingway

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Literary theories will not make a writer write. Votes: 0

Allen Wier

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I am a Moroccan writer of French expression. Votes: 0

Tahar Ben Jelloun

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I'm basically an Upper West Side Jewish writer. Votes: 0

Alan Furst

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I'm a performer, comedian, entertainer, writer and director. Votes: 0

William Shatner

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The waste basket is the writer's best friend. Votes: 0

Isaac Bashevis Singer

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Never, ever become a writer. It's a nightmare. Votes: 0

Alain de Botton

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I'm a writer. An amateur photographer. An actor. Votes: 0

Ben Affleck

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The writer, like the murderer, needs a motive, Votes: 0

Janet Malcolm

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I'm not a writer. I haven't written anything. Votes: 0

Emma Stone

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Every Observer writer wants to be a novelist. Votes: 0

Jared Kushner

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A good writer always works at the impossible. Votes: 0

John Steinbeck

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What creates a writer is huge, psychological dysfunction. Votes: 0

Kathy Lette

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A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity. Votes: 0

Franz Kafka

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Yes! I'm the slowest comic-book writer on Earth. Votes: 0

Jonathan Lethem

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A writer writes what other people only think. Votes: 0

Sol Stein

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A self-advertising writer is always a self-extinguished writer. Votes: 0

Archibald MacLeish

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Behind every writer stands a very large bookshelf. Votes: 0

Justin Cronin

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I'm a writer slash designer slash TV personality. Votes: 0

Lauren Conrad

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The writer's life seethes within but not without. Votes: 0

Anthony Burgess

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A writer survives in spite of his beliefs. Votes: 0

Alberto Moravia

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I'm a writer, so I like dissecting things. Votes: 0

Hal Sparks

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My essential identity is that of a writer. Votes: 0

Athol Fugard

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I'm a writer first and a woman after. Votes: 0

Katherine Mansfield

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A writer is a reader moved to emulation. Votes: 0

Saul Bellow

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I'm a writer who likes to be influenced. Votes: 0

Kenneth Koch

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Joseph Mattson is a monster of a writer. Votes: 0

Beth Lisick

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The writer's duty is to keep on writing. Votes: 0

William Styron

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I've always been a reader and a writer. Votes: 0

Laini Taylor

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I'm not a drug salesman. I'm a writer. Votes: 0

Kurt Vonnegut

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The writer's job is to tell the truth, Votes: 0

Ernest Hemingway

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I never met a writer who wasn't lazy. Votes: 0

Stephen King

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I'm first a pastor and then a writer. Votes: 0

Max Lucado

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I'm a writer who just happens to draw Votes: 0

Matt Groening

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Being a writer is a good, good thing. Votes: 0

Shannon Hale

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I'm not the slowest writer that you know. Votes: 0

David Remnick

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I want to become a very good writer. Votes: 0

Kellie Martin

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I don't think of myself as a writer. Votes: 0

James Patterson

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The writer has to be brave, I think. Votes: 0

Dana Spiotta

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I'm far less a leader than a writer. Votes: 0

Bill McKibben

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A writer's job is to tell the truth. Votes: 0

Andy Rooney

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My mother raised me to be a writer. Votes: 0

Pat Conroy

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The keyhole is my lens as a writer. Votes: 0

Nelson Rodrigues

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Money to a writer is time to write. Votes: 0

Frank Herbert

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If you wish to be a writer, write. Votes: 0

Epictetus

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One is a writer, or one is not. Votes: 0

Monique Wittig

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A good writer is always a people watcher. Votes: 0

Judy Blume

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I never thought of myself as a writer. Votes: 0

David E. Kelley

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Every writer, to some extent, writes about himself. Votes: 0

Dario Argento

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Nothing the writer can do is ever enough. Votes: 0

Joy Williams

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The real writer is one who really writes. Votes: 0

Marge Piercy

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The writer's life is a life of revisions. Votes: 0

Jonathan Franzen

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As a writer, one is busy with archaeology. Votes: 0

Michael Ondaatje

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I'm a writer. I just love telling stories. Votes: 0

Kurt Busiek

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It is the duty of the writer to describe. Votes: 0

Virginia Woolf

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You have to be lonely to be a writer Votes: 0

Edna O'Brien

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If I wasn't a writer, I would be depressed. Votes: 0

J. K. Rowling

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No writer, however popular, disdains a reader, however humble. Votes: 0

Vera Caspary

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A writer's courage: to leave a blank page blank. Votes: 0

Marty Rubin

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Reading is the creative center of a writer's life." - Votes: 0

Stephen King

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Being out in nature inspires me as a writer. Votes: 0

Jason Mraz

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Flow is something the reader experiences, not the writer. Votes: 0

Verlyn Klinkenborg

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I read like everybody - like every other writer. Votes: 0

Nat Hentoff

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Grabbing readers by the imagination is a writer's job. Votes: 0

Sara Sheridan

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You don't ask a writer what typewriter he uses. Votes: 0

Man Ray

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The virtue of a piece is the writer's thoughts. Votes: 0

Joan Acocella

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I'm a writer more than I am a talker. Votes: 0

Wendell Berry

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You become writer by writing. It is a yoga. Votes: 0

R.K. Narayan

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I didn't become a writer to write about me. Votes: 0

Salman Rushdie

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Did you write today? Then you're a writer today. Votes: 0

Julia Cameron

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I have a writerâs concentration: intense, but flickering. Votes: 0

Donald McCaig

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Churchill was a good writer but a bad historian. Votes: 0

Peter Greenaway

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I never knew a writer's wife who wasn't beautiful. Votes: 0

Kurt Vonnegut

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As a writer, I've always been interested in others. Votes: 0

Antonio Tabucchi

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Any writer worth his salt writes to please himself. Votes: 0

Harper Lee

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If a writer doesn't generate hostility, he is dead. Votes: 0

V. S. Naipaul

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A writer is someone who has written something today Votes: 0

J. A. Jance

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A lexicographer, a writer of dictionaries, a harmless drudge. Votes: 0

Samuel Johnson

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I became paralyzed as an artist with writer's block. Votes: 0

David Guterson

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A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit. Votes: 0

Richard Bach

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Forever encased in the amber of a writer's prose. Votes: 0

Robert Galbraith

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The writer identifies the thought behind every written word. Votes: 0

Lailah Gifty Akita

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I'm not a science fiction writer, I'm a physicist. Votes: 0

Michio Kaku

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Every writer is a writer of the generation before. Votes: 0

Wilfrid Sheed

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Because nobody but a reader ever became a writer. Votes: 0

Richard Peck

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I think empathy's a terrible danger for a writer. Votes: 0

Richard Flanagan

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He was a writer and words were his weapons. Votes: 0

Christopher Moore

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Burroughs is the greatest satirical writer since Jonathan Swift. Votes: 0

Jack Kerouac

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I only get writer's block about once a day. Votes: 0

Sue Grafton

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Writing is the worst part of being a writer. Votes: 0

James Atlas

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Stay humble as a writer: write on toilet paper. Votes: 0

Jonas Eriksson

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My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything. Votes: 0

Susan Sontag

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Be prepared to work hard to be a writer. Votes: 0

Sandra Brown

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Television? It's a gateway to writer's block, isn't it? Votes: 0

Alex Turner

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If I weren't a writer, I'd be a psychiatrist. Votes: 0

Lisa Unger

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My father was a writer and an acting teacher. Votes: 0

Noah Hathaway

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What the writer needs is an empty day ahead. Votes: 0

Catherine Drinker Bowen

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I'm not a writer. I like being a reader. Votes: 0

Brian Reynolds Myers

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I am a writer of the textbooks of scientology. Votes: 0

L. Ron Hubbard

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Writing about your community is difficult for any writer. Votes: 0

Eden Robinson

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I have never stopped considering not becoming a writer. Votes: 0

Joshua Ferris

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Where I came from, no one was a writer. Votes: 0

Howard Gordon

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The writer is the engineer of the human soul. Votes: 0

Joseph Stalin

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To be a good writer, become a good listener. Votes: 0

Cynthia Briggs

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Being a writer is not the point. Writing is. Votes: 0

Mohsin Hamid

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I'm not a great writer. I'm a great rewriter. Votes: 0

Paddy Chayefsky

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I've learned a lot as a writer about poetry. Votes: 0

Jacqueline Woodson

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I'm a much better writer for being a father. Votes: 0

Chris Cleave

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Dennis Cooper, God help him, is a born writer. Votes: 0

William S. Burroughs

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I am not a writer except when I write. Votes: 0

Juan Carlos Onetti

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A writer is a world trapped in a person. Votes: 0

Victor Hugo

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I became a writer in spite of my environments. Votes: 0

Robert E. Howard

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Continuity holds the best writer hostage of the worst. Votes: 0

Marv Wolfman

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I always knew I wanted to be a writer. Votes: 0

Karen Kingsbury

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Hackle may be the best absurdist story writer working today. Votes: 0

Bradley Sands

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As a writer, you explore all kinds of different emotions. Votes: 0

Ishmael Reed

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I suspect that every writer is secretly writing for someone. Votes: 0

Brewster Ghiselin

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Virtually every writer I know would rather be a musician. Votes: 0

Kurt Vonnegut

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Cure for writer's block: blow something up(in the story) Votes: 0

Scott Westerfeld

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As a writer, you should not judge, you should understand. Votes: 0

Ernest Hemingway

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A writerâs promise is like a tigerâs smile Votes: 0

Lytton Strachey

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A dramatic writer should never tell anything he can show. Votes: 0

Nunnally Johnson

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Becoming the reader is the essence of becoming a writer. Votes: 0

John O'Hara

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A real writer [...] looks not in another writer but himself. Votes: 0

Indro Montanelli

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The Black writer explains pain to those who inflict it. Votes: 0

Alice Childress

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I've discovered my vocation. I want to be a writer. Votes: 0

Paulo Coelho

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Read everything! I believe that reading made me a writer. Votes: 0

Ann Packer

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The writer is more concerned to know than to judge. Votes: 0

W. Somerset Maugham

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If you're a writer, the answer to everything is yes. Votes: 0

Nikki Giovanni

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Nothing bad can happen to a writer. Everything is material. Votes: 0

Philip Roth

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I'm my own writer. My material means I'm entirely separate. Votes: 0

V. S. Naipaul

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The more learned a writer, the more digression beckons him. Votes: 0

Mason Cooley

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The enemy of a writer is not controversy but obscurity. Votes: 0

William P. Young

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A writer doesn't solve problems. He allows them to emerge. Votes: 0

Friedrich Durrenmatt

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I am a writer. Being critical is a writer's responsibility. Votes: 0

Ma Jian

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The writer's room is a really interesting place to be. Votes: 0

Jason Gann

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Being pro-life is an essential part of being a writer. Votes: 0

Nat Hentoff

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The job of the writer is to make revolution irresistible. Votes: 0

Toni Cade Bambara

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I thought I'd definitely be a writer, whatever I did. Votes: 0

Thomas Keneally

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To be understood a writer has to explain almost everything. Votes: 0

Eugene Delacroix

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I love movies. Movies have influenced me as a writer. Votes: 0

Michael Connelly

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There is no motivation higher than being a good writer. Votes: 0

Tom Wolfe

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I think with every writer there are two people there. Votes: 0

Hugh Leonard

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My eyes glaze over at a writer solving tiny problems. Votes: 0

Doris Grumbach

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Poe is the only impeccable writer. He was never mistaken. Votes: 0

Paul Valery

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When you're a mid-list writer, it pays to write fast. Votes: 0

Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

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A writer has to surprise himself to be worth reading. Votes: 0

Bernard Malamud

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A real writer is always shifting and changing and searching. Votes: 0

James A. Baldwin

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A writer lives, at best, in a state of astonishment. Votes: 0

William Sansom

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Loafing is the most productive part of a writer's life. Votes: 0

James Norman Hall

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In my definition I am a protest writer, with restraint. Votes: 0

Chinua Achebe

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You can't blame a writer for what the characters say. Votes: 0

Truman Capote

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One has to live a life that creates a writer. Votes: 0

Erno Paasilinna

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The creative writer is usually captive to his next book. Votes: 0

Fannie Hurst

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I don't look like a model; I'm a rock writer. Votes: 0

Jancee Dunn

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A writer is a reader who is moved to emulation. Votes: 0

William Maxwell

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In the country of the story the writer is king. Votes: 0

Shirley Jackson

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The writer is the person who stays in the room. Votes: 0

Ron Carlson

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I knew the alphabet. Maybe I could be a writer. Votes: 0

Hubert Selby, Jr.

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It's very hard to be a gentleman and a writer. Votes: 0

W. Somerset Maugham

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I was quite a reader before I became a writer. Votes: 0

Tom T. Hall

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A good writer writes with a camera, not a pen. Votes: 0

Robert Newton Peck

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In utter loneliness a writer tries to explain the inexplicable. Votes: 0

John Steinbeck

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I'm not a very good writer. I'm working at it. Votes: 0

Henry Rollins

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No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader Votes: 0

Ernest Hemingway

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The greatest sin for a writer is to be boring. Votes: 0

Carl Hiaasen

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There's one good kind of writer - a dead one. Votes: 0

James T. Farrell

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As a writer, the best mindset is to be unafraid. Votes: 0

Malcolm Gladwell

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I'm a writer. I don't cook and I don't clean. Votes: 0

Dorothy West

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I grew up wanting to be a writer for theatre. Votes: 0

Christopher Durang

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People always want to identify a writer with their protagonist. Votes: 0

Monica Ali

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Being lonely is not a bad thing for a writer. Votes: 0

Chuck Palahniuk

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What I'd like to be above all is a writer... Votes: 0

Jules Verne

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You are either born a writer or you are not. Votes: 0

Cormac McCarthy

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You have to live a life to become a writer. Votes: 0

Joel Surnow

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If you would be a writer, first be a reader Votes: 0

Allan W. Eckert

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I don't want to be a fusty old lady writer. Votes: 0

Ruth Rendell

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The first job of a writer is to be honest. Votes: 0

Irvine Welsh

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I think, as a writer, I'm in my own head. Votes: 0

Ta-Nehisi Coates

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I'm either going to be a writer or a bum. Votes: 0

Carl Sandburg

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If you are a young writer today, it's very hard. Votes: 0

Doris Lessing

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I would quite like to have been a 1920s writer. Votes: 0

Paul McCartney

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I think I'm less the writer than I'm the written. Votes: 0

John Banville

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In every society the artist or writer remains an outsider ... Votes: 0

Simone de Beauvoir

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Poetry creates the myth, the prose writer draws its portrait. Votes: 0

Jean-Paul Sartre

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Nobody can assume that, to a writer, everything is off-limits. Votes: 0

Ann Beattie

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I'm not a born writer, and I don't enjoy writing. Votes: 0

Alistair MacLean

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The head writer loves that my character is a boor. Votes: 0

Rob Corddry

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Every writer at the New Yorker is smarter than me. Votes: 0

Bob Dylan

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What a writer brings to any story is an attitude Votes: 0

John Gregory

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A writer only begins a book. A reader finishes it. Votes: 0

Samuel Johnson

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As a writer you ask yourself to dream while awake. Votes: 0

Aimee Bender

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My life as a writer consists of 1/8 talent and 7/8 discipline. Votes: 0

John Irving

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God for a month of power & a good shorthand writer. Votes: 0

Winston Churchill

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I'm a writer; I like to retain subtlety and nuance. Votes: 0

Lois Lowry

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Stella Duffy is a writer who never lets you down. Votes: 0

Ali Smith

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The first draft of a story is the writer's clay. Votes: 0

Bruce Coville

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I am the only British writer who writes in Spanish Votes: 0

Guillermo Cabrera Infante

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You only learn to be a better writer by actually writing. Votes: 0

Doris Lessing

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A writer is someone who has taught his mind to misbehave. Votes: 0

Oscar Wilde

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Becoming a mother has helped make me a tougher, stronger writer. Votes: 0

Jessica Hagedorn

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Every writer dreams of writing a book that will touch people. Votes: 0

Bruce Feiler

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You can't be a good writer without being a good thinker. Votes: 0

Andy Rooney

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A good writer sells out everybody he knows, sooner or later. Votes: 0

Alice McDermott

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I wanted to be a film and television writer and producer. Votes: 0

Tyra Banks

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When a writer dies you get a higher standard of obituary. Votes: 0

Arthur Smith

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Being the only writer on a successful show is very rewarding. Votes: 0

Steven Moffat

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A novel is a conversation between a reader and a writer. Votes: 0

John Green

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I'm a mathematician because I'm too slow to be a writer. Votes: 0

Jack Edmonds

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Each writer is born with a repertory company in his head. Votes: 0

Gore Vidal

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Hope but not enthusiasm is the proper state for the writer. Votes: 0

James Salter

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The best tool in a writer's arsenal is a reader's imagination. Votes: 0

Tim Campbell

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No president has come near to rivaling Lincoln as a writer. Votes: 0

Jonathan Raban

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No, you're either born a writer, a storyteller, or you're not. Votes: 0

John Milius

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Max Allan Collins blends fact and fiction like no other writer. Votes: 0

Andrew Vachss

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The true writer must write not the acceptable but the true. Votes: 0

David Mamet

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To begin impatiently is the worst mistake a writer can make Votes: 0

Antony Beevor

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You can't tell a writer they should just be more confident. Votes: 0

Alice Mattison

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Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud. Votes: 0

W. H. Auden

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A writer's tragedy: to know all the words and nothing else. Votes: 0

Marty Rubin

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In the movies, the writer is just the servant, the employee. Votes: 0

Salman Rushdie

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I'm a writer. I don't support any war. That's my principle. Votes: 0

Haruki Murakami

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A writer's heart must beat. A reader's heart must hear it. Votes: 0

Patricia Lee Gauch

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In every writer there is a certain amount of the scavenger. Votes: 0

William Faulkner

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He was such a bad writer, they revoked his poetic license. Votes: 0

Milton Berle

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Any writer who knows what he's doing isn't doing very much. Votes: 0

Nelson Algren

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There's a word for a writer who never gives up: published. Votes: 0

J. A. Konrath

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a writer must always tell the truth (unless he's a journalist) Votes: 0

Gore Vidal

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Mediocrity is more dangerous in a critic than in a writer. Votes: 0

Eugene Ionesco

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I'm not a very good writer, but I'm an excellent rewriter. Votes: 0

James A. Michener

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The love between a writer and a reader is never celebrated. Votes: 0

Patricia Duncker

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From 1968 on, I was pretty much the black, gay SF writer. Votes: 0

Samuel R. Delany

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Kafka is still unrecognized. He thought he was a comic writer. Votes: 0

Leslie Fiedler

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As a writer, I first felt successful before I was published. Votes: 0

Patrick Rothfuss

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I've come to think of myself as a writer of books. Votes: 0

Richard Hell

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It's hard for me to shut off my writer brain completely. Votes: 0

Andy Daly

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I want to be an honest man and a good writer. Votes: 0

James A. Baldwin

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A writer will do anything to avoid the act of writing. Votes: 0

William Zinsser

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I mean, the problem is, I think I'm a great writer. Votes: 0

Aaron Eckhart

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If you would be a reader, read; if a writer, write. Votes: 0

Epictetus

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What a writer wants to do is not what he does. Votes: 0

Jorge Luis Borges

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hay he's a great writer and i like him a lot Votes: 0

Jeff Kinney

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A writer should always feel like he's in over his head Votes: 0

Michael Cunningham

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A writer writes. If you want to be a writer, write. Votes: 0

Regina Brett

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I feel that all a writer has is his own experience. Votes: 0

Truman Capote

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It was Nate Monaster who encouraged me to be a writer. Votes: 0

Gary David

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A good writer of history is a guy who is suspicious. Votes: 0

Jim Bishop

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Nobody ever became a writer just by wanting to be one. Votes: 0

F. Scott Fitzgerald

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to live life as a writer is a very lucky thing. Votes: 0

Wendy Wasserstein

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The greatest gift anyone can give to a writer is time. Votes: 0

Edwidge Danticat

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Don't classify me, read me. I'm a writer, not a genre. Votes: 0

Carlos Fuentes

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A writerâs job is to cultivate what can go wrong. Votes: 0

Chuck Palahniuk

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I find myself very, very happy to be a weird writer. Votes: 0

Rachel

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I'm a schoolteacher and a writer. So that's what I do. Votes: 0

Bruce Jackson

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If the writer does not cry, the reader does not cry. Votes: 0

Robert Frost

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I'm still only half the writer I hope I will be. Votes: 0

Ridley Pearson

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Chekhov was as important to me as anybody as a writer. Votes: 0

Al Pacino

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As a writer you have a duty to be a messenger. Votes: 0

Jay Griffiths

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How I became a better writer was that I kept writing. Votes: 0

Sallie Tisdale

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A writer is a palmist, reading the lines of the planet. Votes: 0

Pico Iyer

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I am trying to keep growing and improving as a writer. Votes: 0

Roxane Gay

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Every writer must have a chip of ice in his heart. Votes: 0

J. K. Rowling

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As a director or writer, you have to be so controlling. Votes: 0

Mike White

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I've learned so much as both a writer and a human. Votes: 0

Cheryl Strayed

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There will be no proof that I ever was a writer. Votes: 0

Franz Kafka

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The writer is by nature a dreamer - a conscious dreamer. Votes: 0

Carson McCullers

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It's part of a writer's job to be nosy about everything. Votes: 0

Sara Sheridan

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As a writer, my homeland is the desk where I work. Votes: 0

Nadeem Aslam

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On cable now, the writer is king. Any actor chases that. Votes: 0

Jeff Daniels

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You need a certain amount of nerve to be a writer. Votes: 0

Margaret Atwood

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The writer's is an interior world, a world of the mind. Votes: 0

Vikas Swarup

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If you can be anything else but a writer, be it. Votes: 0

Kate Braverman

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I'm a writer and this is what I love to do. Votes: 0

Gloria Estefan

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I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker. Votes: 0

Gwendolyn Brooks

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I quit my job, and went ashore to become a writer. Votes: 0

Theodore Sturgeon

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I've carved out a career for myself really as a writer. Votes: 0

Tori Amos

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My relatives used to laugh when I talked of being a writer. Votes: 0

Taylor Caldwell

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If you're a studio writer, the funny better be on the page. Votes: 0

Thomas Lennon

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I would love to be a travel writer. I'd be so stoked. Votes: 0

Drew Barrymore

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My father was a classical musician and my mother was a writer. Votes: 0

John Sebastian

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I suppose sequels are inevitable for a writer of a certain age. Votes: 0

John Updike

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With two books a year, I don't have time for writer's block. Votes: 0

James Rollins

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The talent of a true writer and poet is in the ear. Votes: 0

Bryant H. McGill

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I'm a writer, and I will write what I want to write. Votes: 0

J. K. Rowling

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I am not a born writer, but I was born a writer. Votes: 0

Enid Bagnold

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A writer should never be brief at the expense of being clear. Votes: 0

Arthur Schopenhauer

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I was just as voracious a writer as I was a reader. Votes: 0

Iris Johansen

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I'm not the guy to ask about politics. I'm a gag writer. Votes: 0

David Mamet

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A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world. Votes: 0

Susan Sontag

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Nowadays three witty turns of phrase and a lie make a writer. Votes: 0

Georg C. Lichtenberg

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The best way for me to procrastinate as a writer is research. Votes: 0

Quiara Alegria Hudes

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When a writer is born into a family, the family is finished. Votes: 0

Czeslaw Milosz

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A writer should tend to lift people up, not lower them down. Votes: 0

E. B. White

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The writer's job is not to judge, but to seek to understand. Votes: 0

Ernest Hemingway

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As long as I can remember, I wanted to be a writer. Votes: 0

Michael Easton

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I was not a writer to begin with; I was a listener. Votes: 0

Erskine Caldwell

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You can't want to be a writer. You have to be one. Votes: 0

Paul Theroux

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To be alive and to be a âwriterâ is enough. Votes: 0

Katherine Mansfield

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The writer of prose can only step aside when the poet passes. Votes: 0

W. Somerset Maugham

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A good writer is one you can read without breaking a sweat. Votes: 0

Patricia T. O'Conner

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If a writer falls in love with you, you can never die. Votes: 0

Mik Everett

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I am a writer because writing is the thing I do best. Votes: 0

Flannery O'Connor

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The ear is the only true writer and the only true reader. Votes: 0

Robert Frost

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There is maybe a cynicism because of my past as a writer. Votes: 0

Ryan Tedder

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Now I'm not an author, I'm a writer, that's all I am. Votes: 0

Mickey Spillane

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A writer uses a pen instead of a scalpel or blow torch, Votes: 0

Michael Ondaatje

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Every writer hopes his or her book will be its own thing. Votes: 0

Elizabeth Kostova

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My goal as a writer is more to comfort than to disturb. Votes: 0

Joni Mitchell

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Not the builder, but the writer, creates the road to the future. Votes: 0

Debasish Mridha

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writing about a writer's block is better than not writing at all Votes: 0

Charles Bukowski

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Motown was the mecca. It was every writer's dream to work there. Votes: 0

Valerie Simpson

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I wanted to become a writer. I enjoyed reading as a child. Votes: 0

Goh Chok Tong

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I wouldn't say I was a born writer; I'm a born thinker. Votes: 0

John Lennon

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Night is a very good and very close friend of a writer! Votes: 0

Mehmet Murat ildan

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I'm clearly not a writer, but I'm always a fan of them. Votes: 0

Michael Pena

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If you want to be a writer, then write. Write every day! Votes: 0

Samuel Johnson

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I want to be a writer, not an engineer who writes books. Votes: 0

Paulo Coelho

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I came to the conclusion that I am not a fiction writer. Votes: 0

Tim LaHaye

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I spent 20 years of my career primarily being a writer for hire. Votes: 0

Frank Darabont

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I've wanted to be a writer since I was four years old! Votes: 0

Susan Cain

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A writer uses a pen instead of a scalpel or blow torch. Votes: 0

Michael Ondaatje

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A writer falls in love with an idea and gets carried away. Votes: 0

Doris Lessing

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I longed to be a writer, always wanted to be a writer. Votes: 0

Fannie Flagg

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As a writer you sometimes feel the need to shake things up. Votes: 0

George Meyer

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Do you drink?" "Of course,I just said I was a writer. Votes: 0

Stephen King

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You have to have a somewhat cold heart to be a writer. Votes: 0

Susanna Kaysen

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If you wait for inspiration, you're not a writer, but a waiter. Votes: 0

Louis L'Amour

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There is no sense in which Mohammed is viewed as a writer. Votes: 0

D. A. Carson

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I'm thought to be a tough writer, but I'm really a softie. Votes: 0

V. S. Naipaul

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If you want to tell stories, be a writer, not a filmmaker. Votes: 0

Peter Greenaway

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I love being a writer. What I can't stand is the paperwork. Votes: 0

Peter De Vries

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You can't be a jerk in order to be a good writer. Votes: 0

Ann Patchett

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To be a good writer... read a lot and write every day. Votes: 0

Neil Gaiman

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A writer has to true to him or herself. Period. That's it! Votes: 0

Jhumpa Lahiri

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What is a writer of fiction but a liar with a licence? Votes: 0

Joanne Harris

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Being a professional writer is not an easy way to make a living. Votes: 0

Tracy Kidder

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I wanted to be a writer. I wanted to say something about home. Votes: 0

Ernest Gaines

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I am actually able to do other things. I'm not just this writer. Votes: 0

Diablo Cody

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If you can help it, you arenât destined to become a writer. Votes: 0

Donald Harington

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A great writer is nothing less than a martyr who does not die. Votes: 0

Honore de Balzac

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A writer doesn't really have much of a function on a movie set. Votes: 0

Tom Stoppard

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Somebody told me I'm a writer. I believed them. Now I regret it. Votes: 0

Stefanos Livos

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Young or old, a writer sends a book into the world, not himself. Votes: 0

John Updike

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A good writer does not write as people write, but as he writes. Votes: 0

Baron de Montesquieu

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As a writer, putting words on the page is how I pay attention. Votes: 0

Jonathan Safran Foer

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I was never really a writer, I was always more of a performer. Votes: 0

Mick Ronson

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If you can quit, then quit. If you can't quit, you're a writer. Votes: 0

R. A. Salvatore

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A writer writes what he knows, in ways that are natural to him. Votes: 0

Mo Yan

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Looking straight at the world is part of your duty as a writer. Votes: 0

Pat Barker

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I have truly known what it means for a writer to feel loved. Votes: 0

Arundhati Roy

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I don't think any writer chooses what his or her work is called. Votes: 0

Jennifer Weiner

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There is no such thing as a good writer and a bad liar. Votes: 0

Amy Bloom

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If you get bored with nothing to do, you are not a writer. Votes: 0

Guillermo del Toro

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I had this dream to become a writer since I was a teenager. Votes: 0

Paulo Coelho

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Going off the road just leaves me more time to be a writer. Votes: 0

Janis Ian

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A writer is someone who can make a riddle out of an answer. Votes: 0

Karl Kraus

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I'm better at being a lawyer than I am at being a writer. Votes: 0

David Shapiro

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I think a man turns into a writer by editing his own texts. Votes: 0

Imre Kertesz

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God is a writer and we are both the heroes and the readers. Votes: 0

Isaac Bashevis Singer

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By the time I was 7 or 8, I wanted to be a comedy writer. Votes: 0

Chris Rock

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I didn't have much of a life in crime as a graffiti writer. Votes: 0

Ryan McGinley

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The writer who is a real writer is a rebel who never stops. Votes: 0

William Saroyan

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As a poet and writer, I deeply love and I deeply hate words. Votes: 0

June Jordan

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A writer should write what he has to say and not speak it. Votes: 0

Ernest Hemingway

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Learning how to be a good reader is what makes you a writer. Votes: 0

Zadie Smith

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One of the hardest things for a writer to do is delete words. Votes: 0

Alessandra Torre

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I just don't see myself as a travel writer. I can't. I don't. Votes: 0

Robyn Davidson

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As a writer one has to take the chance on being a fool. Votes: 0

Anne Sexton

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He is a writer for the ages, the ages of four to eight. Votes: 0

Dorothy Parker

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The best way to become a writer is to go off and write. Votes: 0

Ernest Hemingway

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If you don't want to be in a story, don't know a writer. Votes: 0

Ethan Mordden

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The duty and the task of a writer are those of an interpreter. Votes: 0

Marcel Proust

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I don't want the reader to be aware of me as the writer. Votes: 0

Elmore Leonard

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To be a writer is to embrace rejection as a way of life. Votes: 0

Dana Stabenow

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If I can make a living as a writer, I can do anything. Votes: 0

Richard LaGravenese

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A writer has to take all the risks of putting down what he sees. Votes: 0

James A. Baldwin

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The way to learn about a writer is to read the text. Or texts. Votes: 0

Annie Dillard

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Time to a writer is like play dough in the hands of a toddler. Votes: 0

Barry Lane

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If you want to be a writer, just write. There's no magic to it. Votes: 0

Albert Brooks

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I am a writer who was able to direct the films that I write, Votes: 0

Anthony Minghella

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It's an act of faith to be a writer in a post literate world. Votes: 0

Rita Mae Brown

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Listen to the Bee Gees and you can learn to be a great writer. Votes: 0

Kara DioGuardi

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The job of a writer is not to convey emotion but to invoke it. Votes: 0

Eric T. Benoit

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I felt like a number of things in me as a writer just clicked. Votes: 0

Daniel Woodrell

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God, I'm such a lazy writer - I can't even think up new names. Votes: 0

Dennis Potter

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Look how black the sky is, the writer said. I made it that way. Votes: 0

Bret Easton Ellis

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I became a good writer when I saw the age of forty coming at me Votes: 0

Pat Mora

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A writer is a human being. He has to live with a sense of honor. Votes: 0

Irwin Shaw

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I always felt that I was a writer, that was what I had to do. Votes: 0

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

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I knew from the age of seven that I was meant to be a writer. Votes: 0

Elizabeth George

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But as a writer and performer, I want to get paid for what I do. Votes: 0

Debbie Harry

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I never sort of thought of myself as a comedy writer, by nature.

Lena Dunham

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You can't be a writer if you don't write, it's just that simple.

Nicholas Sparks

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There are few punishments too severe for a popular novel writer,

S. S. Van Dine

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Fundamentally, I think of myself as a storyteller, not a writer.

Tom Clancy

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The best thing a writer can do is walk. Walking gives you ideas.

Tony Grisoni

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I've always believed that a writer has got to remain an outsider.

Colin Wilson

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I don't think that the writer is regarded as a freak by Americans

Irwin Shaw

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In Europe, a writer is supposed to improve up until he's about 75

Irwin Shaw

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Yes, writing is not easy. But can any writer imagine NOT writing?

Jacqueline Woodson

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Memorizing the work of others definitely made me a better writer.

James Arthur

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A writer should have another lifetime to see if he's appreciated.

Jorge Luis Borges

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You can't be a proper writer without a touch of madness, can you?

Kate Winslet

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As a writer I'm more drawn to villains who are just slightly mad.

Lev Grossman

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Being a real writer means being able to do the work on a bad day.

Norman Mailer

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If you need drugs to be a good writer, you are not a good writer.

Rod Serling

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You have so many sources to draw on when you're a fantasy writer.

Terry Pratchett

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TV writing is different than other mediums, involving the writer.

Tom Skerritt

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For a writer, obsession is a good substitute for self-discipline.

Vikram Seth

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A great writer is, so to speak, a secret government in his country

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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I'm a writer and, therefore, automatically a suspicious character.

Alfred Hitchcock

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The idea that you're not a writer until you're published is a lie.

Andrew Vachss

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I think you have an obligation to share what you know as a writer.

David Guterson

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The first thing a writer has to do is find a new source of income.

Ellen Gilchrist

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the writer is initially set going by literature more than by life.

Flannery O'Connor

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The trick is not becoming a writer. The trick is staying a writer.

Harlan Ellison

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Humility is not a virtue in a writer, it is an absolute necessity.

James Lee Burke

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Authority is the unmistakeable tone in the voice of a true writer.

John J. Geddes

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It is true that, with TV, a writer gets a great deal more respect.

Jon Spaihts

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A writer's life is in his work, and that is the place to find him.

Joyce Carol Oates

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The writer's function is to prevent myths turning into allegories.

Michel Tournier

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If you don't read for pleasure, you'll lose your edge as a writer.

Nora Roberts

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In the end, the writer is not even allowed to live in his writing.

Theodor Adorno

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For a country to have a great writer is to have another government.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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A whole album to one writer - now that would be really interesting.

Alison Krauss

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A writer is rarely so well inspired as when he talks about himself.

Anatole France

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A writer who can't write in a grammerly manner better shut up shop.

Artemas Ward

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This is the most powerful thing I can do! I'm going to be a writer.

Candace Bushnell

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Bucky Katt: A bad writer is just a good writer with writer's block.

Darby Conley

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Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable.

E. M. Forster

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Mythologies become exhausting burdens, from a writer's perspective.

Eric Kripke

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The most important thing for a writer is to be locked in a study...

Erica Jong

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Anyone who says he wants to be a writer and isn't writing, doesn't.

Ernest Hemingway

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A writer can make a fortune in America, but he can't make a living.

James A. Michener

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Be you writer or reader, it is very pleasant to run away in a book.

Jean Craighead George

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Libraries made me - as a reader, as a writer, and as a human being.

Laurie R. King

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I think of a writer as a river: you reflect what passes before you.

Natalia Ginzburg

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Write a thousand words a day and in three years you'll be a writer!

Ray Bradbury

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I never wanted to be a writer; I just had stories I needed to tell.

Sefi Atta

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The writer is important only by dint of the territory he colonizes.

Van Wyck Brooks

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I do not know what makes a writer, but it probably isn't happiness.

William Saroyan

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When another writer in another house is not free, no writer is free.

Orhan Pamuk

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I didn't raise Todd to be a writer, but he happened to be one anyway

Anne McCaffrey

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the only way to become a better writer is to become a better person.

Brenda Ueland

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Every other writer's process is sort of vaguely scary and appalling.

Daryl Gregory

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Insofar as I'm good at directing, it's because I've become a writer.

David Hare

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A writer helps to show you things you knew but didn't know you knew.

Dennis Potter

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A painter can hang his pictures, but a writer can only hang himself.

Edward Dahlberg

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If I'm a lousy writer, then an awful lot of people have lousy taste.

Grace Metalious

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I was never a wet-eyed, passionate writer; I was always a policeman.

Joseph Wambaugh

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I always say that I'm a writer who writes more from place than race.

Katori Hall

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There is no vacation for a writer! Every moment of his life is work!

Mehmet Murat ildan

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[Margot Hentoff] was an editor there for a time as well as a writer.

Nat Hentoff

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The less conscious one is of being a writer, the better the writing.

Pico Iyer

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The writer is an explorer. Every step is an advance into a new land.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Part of being a writer is knowing when what you write is really bad.

Reif Larsen

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In picture-making the writer is the most important cog in the wheel.

Samuel Goldwyn

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When faced with writer's block, lower your standards and keep going.

Sandra Tsing Loh

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In order to be a writer, first you must become an alive dead spirit.

William C. Brown

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The day when I am no more than a writer I shall cease to be a writer.

Albert Camus

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The writer is a writer because he cannot help it. It is a compulsion.

Edna Ferber

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Some writers are only born to help another writer write one sentence.

Ernest Hemingway

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Come, let's be calm: no one incapable of restraint was ever a writer.

Gustave Flaubert

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I have a curious background for someone who turns out to be a writer.

Jerry Spinelli

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Being a writer in a library is rather like being a eunuch in a harem.

John Braine

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You don't have to be crazy to be a writer, but it certainly does help

Mary Jo Putney

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I'm a writer and writers either have good memories or nothing at all.

Maya Angelou

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Any writer would rather dig into character than dig into fancy plots.

Michael Connelly

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She is not a writer at all, really; she is merely a gifted eccentric.

Michael Cunningham

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There is only one trait that makes the writer. He is always watching.

Morley Callaghan

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When you are not writing, you are a writer too. It doesn't leave you.

Natalie Goldberg

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I'm like a blue-collar writer. I just sit down every day and I write.

Philip Kan Gotanda

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A good creative-writing teacher can save a good writer a lot of time.

Richard Hugo

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I'd hire the devil himself as a writer if he gave me a good story....

Samuel Goldwyn

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If you are to become a writer you'll have to stop fooling with words.

Sherwood Anderson

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There's a powerful magic about being a writer that I still marvel at.

Sidney Lumet

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I actually wanted to be a writer long before I wanted to be an actor.

Simon Callow

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It's a writer's job to carve with language, to hew close to the bone.

Stephen King

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The true writer has nothing to say. What counts is the way he says it.

Alain Robbe-Grillet

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As a writer, all you want to do is write for great actors. That's all.

Amy Sherman-Palladino

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It took me six novels before I felt confident of my voice as a writer,

Andrea Hirata

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I wasn't that great a chef, and I don't think I'm that great a writer.

Anthony Bourdain

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I am also a writer. That is a fact not known by the public in general.

Bob Kane

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You're a reader as well as a writer, so write what you'd want to read.

Cassandra Clare

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Guy Kay is probably my favorite and the writer I most want to emulate.

David B. Coe

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It's not for the writer to say whether the thing is successful or not.

David Bezmozgis

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The great writer finds style as the mystic finds God, in his own soul.

Havelock Ellis

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The writer of good will carries a lamp to illuminate the dark corners.

Isabel Allende

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A writer is unfair to himself when he is unable to be hard on himself.

Marianne Moore

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No writer has an imaginative power richer than what the streets offer.

Mehmet Murat ildan

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You shone like a star. The funniest, wisest writer & the finest friend

Neil Gaiman

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a basic "must" for every writer: A simple solitude-physical & mental.

Rod Serling

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A writer who obtains his full purpose loses himself in his own lustre.

Samuel Johnson

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A next-generation innovation writer and thought leader worth watching.

Scott D. Anthony

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I don't understand how you can be a decent writer and not know people.

Sloane Crosley

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Being a reporter took me out of myself and that shaped me as a writer.

Tom Barbash

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The writer has three sources: imagination, observation, and experience

William Faulkner

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The writer is the visionary of his people... He anticipates, he warns.

Wole Soyinka

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The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself.

Albert Camus

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I've thought of becoming a photographer! To save my talent as a writer.

August Strindberg

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The writer's object is - or should be - to hold the reader's attention.

Barbara Tuchman

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I'm a humor writer, so I don't always present myself in the best light.

Jen Lancaster

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What you're normally doing as a writer is trying to find the narrative.

Joan Didion

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The writer is always tricking the reader into listening to their dream.

Joan Didion

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The secret of becoming a writer is to write, write and keep on writing.

Ken MacLeod

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The writer is always courted by invitations from the all-too- familiar.

Mason Cooley

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Being a writer of fiction isn't like being a compulsive liar, honestly.

Neil Gaiman

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Any writer likes to be near the area which is the location of his work.

Ngugi wa Thiong'o

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Cheryl Strayed is a courageous, gritty, and deceptively elegant writer.

Pam Houston

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The obscurity of a writer is generally in proportion to his incapacity.

Quintilian

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What other grown-up gets told how to do their job so often as a writer?

Rachel Cusk

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Talent alone cannot make a writer. There must be a man behind the book.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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All characters are based on elements of a writer's personal experience.

Robert Holdstock

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According to [Maxine Hong] Kingston, the prose writer is "a workhorse."

Shirley Geok-lin Lim

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The writer of history is perhaps closer to the artist than the scholar.

Theodor Mommsen

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In every man's writings, the character of the writer must lie recorded.

Thomas Carlyle

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A good writer is not someone who knows how to write- but how to rewrite

William Goldman

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As a writer, you live in permanent self-doubt; youre on permanent trial.

Antonio Munoz Molina

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If you want to support a writer, produce the first five plays he writes.

August Wilson

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The impact of any particular writer on your own work is hard to discern.

Daniel Alarcon

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Being a good writer doesnât make you a good reporter, it takes hustle.

David

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The writer is one who, emnbarking upon a task, does not know what to do.

Donald Barthelme

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A writer is essentially a man who does not resign himself to loneliness.

Francois Mauriac

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Of course I wanted to know. I was a writer. I wanted to know everything.

Gregory David Roberts

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I'm a writer, and what I do is write. I wasn't able to do anything else.

Hugh Leonard

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If you want to be a writer-stop talking about it and sit down and write!

Jackie Collins

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The trick to writer's block is to sack up and write through it, you see.

Jeph Jacques

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I'm a black writer from Mississippi. That's what I most consider myself.

Kiese Laymon

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In a writer there must always be two people - the writer and the critic.

Leo Tolstoy

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London and Fog! When these two come together, it is time to be a writer!

Mehmet Murat ildan

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For me, fiction's great gift - to writer and reader, alike - is freedom.

Norman Lock

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Marry somebody you love and who thinks you being a writer's a good idea.

Richard Ford

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Don't scatter your fire! You are a prose writer: stick to your own tool!

Sarah Orne Jewett

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It's one of the reasons I became a writer, to be able to smoke in peace.

Susanna Kaysen

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Every good writer has much idiom; it is the life and spirit of language.

Walter Savage Landor

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What a writer's obituary should read - he wrote the books, then he died.

William Faulkner

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What a lonely and silly thing it is to be an Armenian writer in America.

William Saroyan

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I never wanted to be mainstream as a writer, but look at what's happened.

Anne Enright

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So I think a writer should write what he loves, the people he relates to.

David E. Kelley

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American writer 1803-1882 Play is our brain's favorite way of learning.

Diane Ackerman

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I was born a writer. When that happens, you have no choice in the matter.

Gore Vidal

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Geometry is to the plastic arts what grammar is to the art of the writer.

Guillaume Apollinaire

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You have to write a million words before you find your voice as a writer.

Henry Miller

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In my experience an appreciative letter from a fellow writer means a lot.

Ian Mcewan

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You have to expect the raps when you have achieved popularity as a writer

Irwin Shaw

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The writer after all is only half the book, the other half is the reader.

Lois Lowry

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To be a good poet, you must care more about the writing, than the writer.

Lucille Clifton

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There is no such thing as an "aspiring writer". You are a writer. Period.

Matthew Reilly

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You must learn to be three people at once: writer, character, and reader.

Nancy Kress

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I wouldn't be a very good writer if someone hadn't taught me how to read.

Richard Ford

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I suddenly realized I was a writer of wide reputation and most of it bad.

Theodora

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If you want to be a writer, you don't want to live in a comfortable place.

Benjamin Alire Saenz

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I don't think being a lawyer is more or less valuable than being a writer.

Emily Gould

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I'm a writer. I write not only for a living, I write because I'm a writer.

Gary Jennings

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Nothing is more flattering for a writer than when someone knows your work.

Hilton Als

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In a novel, the relationship between writer and reader is such a pure one.

Howard Gordon

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Philip Roth is a good writer, but I wouldn't want to shake hands with him.

Jacqueline Susann

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I think as an artist or a writer it's OK to want to control your own work.

James Frey

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Thoughts fly and words go on foot. Therein lies all the drama of a writer.

Julien Green

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I'm not a great joke writer, which is odd for a comic to say, but I'm not.

Lewis Black

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A man is a writer if all his words are strung in definite sentence sounds.

Marianne Moore

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The most fun thing about being a writer is that everything is interesting.

Rafael Yglesias

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I liked the idea of being a writer and letting somebody else do the graft.

Siouxsie Sioux

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If bad taste were a felony, every writer I know would've done prison time.

Steven Bochco

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A writer must teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid.

William Faulkner

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The writer who cares about usage must always know the quick from the dead.

William Zinsser

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I didn't really sign up to be a celebrity, I only signed up to be a writer.

Alan Moore

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The final lesson a writer learns is that everything can nourish the writer.

Anais Nin

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You don't say, I'm going to be a writer when I grow up - at least I didn't.

Anthony Doerr

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The existence of the writer is to write, and to write is to tell the truth.

Azar Nafisi

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I was a writer since I was a little kid. It just always sort of fit for me.

Brian Bird

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Im a writer, so whatever gymnastics jump through my head, I write about it.

Earl King

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But I do not have the reader in mind when I write. No true writer does that

Guillermo Cabrera Infante

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When a writer tries to explain too much, he's out of time before he begins.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

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Perhaps it would be better not to be a writer, but if you must, then write.

J. B. Priestley

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The only reason I became a writer was so I could exist on a piece of paper.

Jose Antonio Vargas

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I'm not good enough as a person and definitely not good enough as a writer.

Kiese Laymon

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I don't care what any writer says about me ... I just want to play my game.

Miguel Tejada

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The ideas within this philosophy are certainly not exclusive to any writer,

Nic Pizzolatto

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What's the use of being a writer if you can't irritate a great many people?

Norman Mailer

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Maybe I'm a serial regional writer. First here, then there, across the map.

Richard Ford

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If you are a good editor, your relationship with every writer is different.

Robert Gottlieb

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Don't be a writer. Writing is an escape from something. You be a scientist.

Sinclair Lewis

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Sometimes life coughs up coincidences no writer of fiction would dare copy.

Stephen King

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I think I became [writer] despite myself - tricking myself into it, really.

Vera Nazarian

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In addition to comedy, I'm a writer. I write checks. They're not very good.

Wendy Liebman

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A writer paradoxically seeks the truth and tells lies every step of the way.

Anne Lamott

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I would like, in the long term, to be recognized as a writer-director-actor.

Corey Feldman

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No one ever addresses the possibility that a writer might not like her book.

Emily Gould

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I am a loner by nature, and then I'm a writer, which makes me twice a loner.

Gustavo Perez Firmat

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As you can tell from watching the show, I'm not a strong joke writer per se.

Janeane Garofalo

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A writer must refuse to allow himself to be transformed into an institution.

Jean-Paul Sartre

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A tragic writer does not have to believe in God, but he must believe in man.

Joseph Wood Krutch

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If you are a writer/director, the [movie] characters are a part of yourself.

Juan Diego Solanas

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When somebody asks me what I do, I don't think I'd say critic. I say writer.

Leslie Fiedler

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He who is afraid to use an "I" in his writing will never make a good writer.

Lin Yutang

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A letter is a risky thing; the writer gambles on the reader's frame of mind.

Margaret Deland

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Writer is a monkey, jumping from one tree to another in the jungle of words.

Mehmet Murat ildan

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There is no way of being a creative writer in America without being a loser.

Nelson Algren

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The pleasure a reader gets is often equal to the pleasure a writer is given.

Paul Theroux

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I wanted to write a novel. At 12 I knew, I am a writer. I said it to nobody.

Peter Bichsel

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A writer's inspiration is not just to create. He must eat three times a day.

Pierre Beaumarchais

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The life of a writer is absolute hell compared to the life of a businessman.

Roald Dahl

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A writer must take risks, defy the odds, be a bit obsessed and a little mad.

Robert Cormier

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I was nine when I first knew I wanted to be a writer, in particular, a poet.

Shirley Geok-lin Lim

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Somehow, as a writer, you tend to use words to paper over structural cracks.

Stephen Fry

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A writer needs a pen, an artist needs a brush, but a filmmaker needs an army.

Orson Welles

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If a young writer can refrain from writing, he shouldnât hesitate to do so.

Andre Gide

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I'm good at being by myself. I guess if you're a writer you get used to that.

Chuck Klosterman

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When I started to be a writer, I was not going to run the risk of boring you.

Daniel Woodrell

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You have to give up a great deal of life, your personal life, to be a writer.

Doris Lessing

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One of the things I had to learn as a writer was to trust the act of writing.

E. L. Doctorow

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For Cave Carson, I have a co-writer, so that takes off a lot of the pressure.

Gerard Way

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Food is a profound subject and one, incidentally, about which no writer lies.

Iris Murdoch

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Perhaps I wasn't going crazy after all. Perhaps I was just becoming a writer.

Janette Rallison

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Understand, I had absolutely no interest in writing; I wanted to be a Writer.

Kate DiCamillo

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I'm a singer and a writer first. I started to rap by accident, being playful.

Kesha

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Every writer needs an editor. I don't care how good you are or think you are.

Nora Roberts

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I am not a slow writer, I am not a fast writer . . . I am a half-fast writer.

Robert Asprin

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Writer's block? I've never heard of a plumber complain about plumber's block.

Robert B. Parker

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That's all a writer has to write about - what he sees and hears and what not.

Truman Capote

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A writer is someone who has found a process that will bring about new things.

William Stafford

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Fighting clutter is like fighting weeds-the writer is always slightly behind,

William Zinsser

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Scribbler, n. A professional writer whose views are antagonistic to one's own.

Ambrose Bierce

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It is a poor thing for the writer to take on that which he doesn't understand.

Anton Chekhov

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If you believe you can make a living as a writer, you already have enough ego.

David Brin

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I just knew I would be a writer. It just seemed the only sensible thing to do.

Jane Gardam

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A writer loves the dark, loves it, but is always fumbling around in the light.

Joy Williams

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A painter paints, a musician plays, a writer writes - but a movie actor waits.

Mary Astor

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Thinking is a great joy for a good writer and a great torture for the bad one!

Mehmet Murat ildan

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Everyone has access to a pen and paper, but to be a great writer is difficult.

Pamela Yates

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The ideal reader cannot sleep when holding the writer he was meant to be with.

Zadie Smith

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There was nothing glorious about the life of a drinker or the life of a writer.

Charles Bukowski

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Sometimes a writer, like an acrobat, must try a trick that is too much for him.

E. B. White

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Mice: What is the best early training for a writer? Y.C.: An unhappy childhood.

Ernest Hemingway

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A writer's temperament is continually making him do things he can never repair.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

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I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.

Henry James

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The writer ... an athlete required to break the four-minute mile every morning.

Irving Stone

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Writer's make national literature, while translators make universal literature.

Jose Saramago

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Alice Munro can move characters through time in a way that no other writer can.

Julian Barnes

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I can't think of another writer who can move me as surreptitiously as Vian does

Julio Cortazar

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Book after book, I get hooked, every time the writer talks to me like a friend.

Marc Bolan

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Everybody is a writer. Everybody uses e-mail and has Facebook pages and tweets.

Mary Norris

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When I first wanted to be a writer, I learned to write prose by reading poetry.

Nicholson Baker

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I get inspired by my friends, and if a friend is a writer, that is even deeper.

Nick Flynn

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Upon being asked by a fan how to become a writer, Stephen King replied, "Write.

Stephen King

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When a good writer is having fun, the audience is almost always having fun too.

Stephen King

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