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Writers, good ones, don't tell stories. Characters show stories. Votes: 4

Robert Newton Peck

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Writers don't write to inform other people, they write to find out something themselves. Votes: 4

Judith Guest

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Writers turn dreams into print. Votes: 3

James A. Michener

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Writers are only rarely likable. Votes: 3

Joan Didion

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Writers fly with imaginary wings. Votes: 3

Melody Robinette

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Writers write. Everyone else makes excuses. Votes: 3

Jack Bickham

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Writers' lives break into two halves, Votes: 3

John Updike

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Writers write about what worries them. Votes: 3

Alistair MacLeod

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Writers are always selling somebody out. Votes: 3

Joan Didion

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Writers are storytellers. So are readers. Votes: 3

Oliver North

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Writers . . . write to give reality to experience. Votes: 3

Archibald MacLeish

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Writers are too self-centered to be lonely. Votes: 3

Richard Condon

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Writers are always diverse on the inside. Votes: 3

Pat Mora

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Don't live with writers. Writers are bastards. Votes: 3

Warren Ellis

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Writers can treat their mental illnesses every day. Votes: 3

Kurt Vonnegut

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Writers are diffident creatures -- they need encouragement. Votes: 3

Agatha Christie

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Writers let themselves be enticed by the language. Votes: 3

Peter Bichsel

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Writers do not find subjects; subjects find them. Votes: 3

Elizabeth Bowen

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Writers, especially poets, are particularly prone to madness. Votes: 3

Nick Flynn

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Writers will be judged by what they write. Votes: 3

Raymond Carver

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Writers are too neurotic to ever be happy. Votes: 3

Connie Willis

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Writers are the exorcists of their own demons. Votes: 3

Mario Vargas Llosa

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Writers will happen in the best of families. Votes: 3

Rita Mae Brown

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Writers are the main landmarks of the past. Votes: 3

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

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Writers are spies. Outsiders. Believers in the turning pages. Votes: 3

Alexis De Veaux

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Writers of fiction embellish reality almost without knowing it. Votes: 3

Aljean Harmetz

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Writers are essential. Readers are essential. Publishers are not. Votes: 3

J. A. Konrath

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Writers like teeth are divided into incisors and grinders. Votes: 3

Walter Bagehot

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Writers are very much undervalued in the creative process. Votes: 3

Rachel Ward

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[Writers are] the highest paid secretaries in the world. Votes: 3

Joseph L. Mankiewicz

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Writers, you know, are the beggars of Western society. Votes: 3

Octavio Paz

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Writers are nothing but beggars with a good line. Votes: 3

Charles Bukowski

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Writers tell more truths, and more lies, than most. Votes: 3

Mason Cooley

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Writers should be read, but neither seen nor heard. Votes: 3

Daphne du Maurier

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Writers don't need love; all they require is money. Votes: 3

John Osborne

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Writers are used to being re-created, and need it. Votes: 3

David James Duncan

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Writers speak for those who are kept in silence Votes: 3

Isabel Allende

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

Andy Rooney

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Writers may be classified as meteors, planets, and fixed stars. Votes: 3

Arthur Schopenhauer

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Writers and filmmakers have this age-old relationship to the material. Votes: 3

Duncan Roy

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Writers are opposite of athletes, they get better with age Votes: 3

Aaron Sorkin

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Writers are rarely their own best critics, nor are critics. Votes: 3

Anthony Burgess

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Writers write for fame, wealth, power and the love of women. Votes: 3

Sigmund Freud

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Writers who are activists are very rarely taken seriously as artists. Votes: 3

Larry Kramer

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Writers are often the worst judges of what they have written. Votes: 3

Stephen King

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Writers are what they write, also what they fail to write. Votes: 3

Diana Trilling

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Writers often write their best when they are feeling their worst Votes: 3

Susan Cheever

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Writers, however mature and wise and eminent, are children at heart. Votes: 3

Edna O'Brien

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Writers and travelers are mesmerized alike by knowing of their destinations. Votes: 3

Eudora Welty

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I am not retiring. Writers don't retire. Writers never stop writing. Votes: 3

Andy Rooney

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Writers are liars my dear, surely you know that by now? Votes: 3

Neil Gaiman

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Writers ... I think ... live on that fine line between insanity and genius ... Votes: 3

Nikki Giovanni

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Writers don't have lifestyles. They just sit in little rooms and write. Votes: 3

Norman Mailer

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Writers are doubters, compulsives, self-flagellants. The torture only stops for brief moments. Votes: 3

Erica Jong

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Writers mean more than they say and say more than they mean. Votes: 3

Mason Cooley

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Writers really live in the mind and in hotels of the soul. Votes: 3

Edna O'Brien

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Writers are good at plucking out what they need here and there. Votes: 3

Beverly Cleary

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Writers are said to have superstitions and little rituals. Readers have them too. Votes: 3

Ian Mcewan

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Writers do not merely reflect and interpret life, they inform and shape life. Votes: 3

E. B. White

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Writers don't need to be given formulas; they need to be shown possibilities. Votes: 3

Barry Lane

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Writers would be warm, loyal, and otherwise terrific people-if only they'd stop writing. Votes: 3

Laura Miller

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Writers, at least writers of fiction, are always full of anxiety and worry. Votes: 3

Peter Carey

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Writers never feel comfortable having labels attached to them, however accurate they are. Votes: 3

Jonathan Coe

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Writers do not write what they know. They write what they can imagine. Votes: 3

Walter Dean Myers

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Writers obviously have to bear witness to the harsh face of the age. Votes: 3

Alexander McCall Smith

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Writers should be read but not seen. Rarely are they a winsome sight. Votes: 3

Edna Ferber

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Writers can't write as fast as governments make wars; because to write demands thinking. Votes: 3

Bertolt Brecht

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Writers have been in terrible situations and have yet managed to produce extraordinary work. Votes: 3

Salman Rushdie

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Writers learn their craft, above all, from the work of other writers. From reading. Votes: 3

Marie Arana

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Writers who pretend that everything they're doing is completely new are full of it. Votes: 3

Justin Cronin

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Writers rush in where publishers fear to tread and where translators fear to tread. Votes: 3

Guillermo Cabrera Infante

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Writers of fiction, when they begin, are more likely to try the short form. Votes: 3

Irwin Shaw

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Writers think in metaphors. Editors work in metaphors. A great reader reads in metaphors. Votes: 3

Steven Pressfield

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Writers of comedy have outlook, whereas writers of tragedy have, according to them, insight. Votes: 3

James Thurber

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Don't wait for the muse. She has a lousy work ethic. Writers just write. Votes: 3

Barbara Kingsolver

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Writers who have nothing to say always strain for metaphors to say it in. Votes: 3

Florence King

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Writers of fiction, when they begin, are more likely to try the short form Votes: 3

Irwin Shaw

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Writers are human. I shudder to think how I must sometimes appear to others. Votes: 3

Wole Soyinka

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Writers aren't born, they're made - from practice, reading, and a lot of caffeine. Votes: 3

Alexander Chee

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Writers tend to consider distinction and originality as virtues, but they are anathema to publishers. Votes: 3

Thomas M. Disch

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Writers, like elephants, have long, vicious memories. There are things I wish I could forget. Votes: 3

William S. Burroughs

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Writers, and particularly female writers, have to fight for the conditions they need to work ... Votes: 3

Doris Lessing

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Writers shouldn't have lives that are interesting. It gets in the way of your work. Votes: 3

Salman Rushdie

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Writers must constantly ask: what I am trying to say? Surprisingly often, they don't know. Votes: 3

William Zinsser

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Writers talk about the agony of writing; I talk about the agony of not writing. Votes: 3

Laura Z. Hobson

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Writers donât care what they eat. They just care what you think of them Votes: 3

Louise Fitzhugh

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Writers write. That's all it is. It is as simple, and as complex, as that. Votes: 3

Stephen King

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Writers aren't born properly labeled so it is hard to know one when one appears. Votes: 3

Julianna Baggott

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Writers are magpies, and we collect details about people and we use them for fictional characters. Votes: 3

Caroline Leavitt

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Writers are always a great nuisance to publishers. If they could do without them, they would. Votes: 3

Fay Weldon

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Writers, as they gain success, feel like outsiders because writers don't come together in real groups. Votes: 3

Anne Rice

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Writers should take advantage of their surroundings, if only to trigger memories that juice their writing. Votes: 3

Kirby Wright

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Writers build castles in the air, the reader lives inside, and the publisher inns the rent. Votes: 3

Maxim Gorky

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Writers may be solitary but they also tend to flock together: they like being solitary together. Votes: 3

Neil Gaiman

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Writers do not write about a place because they belong there, but because they want to. Votes: 3

Tony Earley

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Writers have to keep on writing if they want to mature, like caterpillars endlessly chewing on leaves. Votes: 3

Haruki Murakami

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Writers are in the entertainment business, and it gives me lots of pleasure to entertain my readers. Votes: 3

Brian Lumley

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Writers can write outside their ethnicity or sex depending how open and vulnerable they wish to be. Votes: 3

Jim Harrison

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Writers do draw inspiration from their own lives, which, quite frankly, might be more interesting than fiction. Votes: 3

Monica Johnson

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Writers' bedtimes vary, but few have been spared the shock of a copy editor's early wake-up call. Votes: 3

Bill Walsh

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Writers' bedtimes vary, but few have been spared the shock of a copy editor's early wake-up call." Votes: 3

Bill Walsh

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Writers' bedtimes vary, but few have been spared the shock of a copy editor's early wake-up call Votes: 3

Bill Walsh

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Writers have an opinion about the world and offer arguments about the world. They should offer contemplation. Votes: 3

Salman Rushdie

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Writers have no real area of expertise. They are merely generalists with a highly inflamed sense of punctuation. Votes: 3

Lorrie Moore

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Writers are magpies by nature, always collecting shiny things, storing them away and looking for connections of things. Votes: 3

John Connolly

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I believe strongly in writing groups such as Romance Writers Of America that offer support, information and networking. Votes: 3

Nora Roberts

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Writers have to be careful not to confuse personal attention with the attention that's going towards the book. Votes: 3

Andre Dubus III

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Writers write to influence their readers, their preachers, their auditors, but always, at bottom, to be more themselves. Votes: 3

Aldous Huxley

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Writers of fiction should stick to writing, not pop up on panel shows or as a talking head. Votes: 3

Robert Harris

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Writers have opinions - that, in part, is why they write. Therefore they have strong likes and dislikes. Votes: 3

Frank Delaney

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Writers must rely more on the feel of a sentence than on the dictates of a rule book. Votes: 3

James J. Kilpatrick

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Writers of novels live in a strange world where what's made up is as important as what's real. Votes: 3

Sara Sheridan

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Writers are given one great story to tell their story. Iâm telling my story as a political document. Votes: 3

Larry Kramer

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Characters have to be seen and felt when written, not told about. Writers are merely vessels of their manifestations. Votes: 3

Linda Durbin

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Writers may be disreputable, incorrigible, early to decay or late to bloom but they dare to go it alone. Votes: 3

John Updike

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Writers write these male stereotypes, and it makes it ten times more interesting if a woman says the lines. Votes: 3

Sigourney Weaver

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Writers, especially when they act in a body and with one direction, have great influence on the public mind. Votes: 3

Edmund Burke

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Writers have to be very careful and discerning because so much of the machine is out of their control. Votes: 3

Tamsin Greig

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Writers who used to show off their erudition no longer sing in the bare ruined choir of the media. Votes: 3

William Safire

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Writers change the world one heart, one mind, at a time. That should be enough to keep us going. Votes: 3

David Farland

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Writers and journalists tend to be simplistic about politics when, like all other areas of life, it's more complicated. Votes: 3

Robert Harris

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Writers have a rare power not given to anyone else: we can bore people long after we are dead. Votes: 3

Sinclair Lewis

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Writers divide into those who write biting their nails and those who don't. Some writers write licking their finger. Votes: 3

Italo Calvino

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Writers tell stories better, because they've had more practice, but everyone has a book in them. Yes, that old cliche. Votes: 3

Tanith Lee

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Writers are lampposts and critics are dogs. Ask lampposts what they think about dogs. Does the dog hurt the lamppost? Votes: 3

Paulo Coelho

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Success has affected my self-definition in that I have more money. Writers pooh-pooh that idea, but it's a huge deal. Votes: 3

Mary Karr

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Writers can write to affirm and to celebrate, or they can write to debunk and destroy; the choice is ours. Votes: 3

William Zinsser

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Writers spend three years rearranging 26 letters of the alphabet. It's enough to make you lose your mind day by day. Votes: 3

Richard Price

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Ilike ideas writers have that I might not have written. Writers are there for a reason... to write for me. Votes: 3

Tim Roth

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Writers spend three years rearranging 26 letters of the alphabet. It's enough to make you lose your mind day by day Votes: 3

Richard Price

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Writers are always critical of themselves and I'm no exception. I always feel that maybe I could have done better. Votes: 3

Iris Johansen

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Writers are historians, too. It is in literature that the greater truths about a people and their past are found. Votes: 3

F. Sionil Jose

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With my career I want to either make something or make an impact. Writers both make something, and make an impact. Votes: 3

Jarod Kintz

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Writing is not a matter of choice. Writers have to write. It is somehow in their temperament, in the blood, in tradition. Votes: 3

N. Scott Momaday

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Writers have to have a knack for listening. I need to be able to hear what is being said to me by the voices I create. Votes: 3

Jeanette Winterson

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Writers speak stench. Votes: 2

Franz Kafka

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Writers have superpowers. Votes: 2

Cynthia Hand

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Writers talk too much. Votes: 2

Lillian Hellman

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Writers need each other. Votes: 2

Sara Sheridan

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Writers should provoke disagreement. Votes: 2

V. S. Naipaul

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Writers are idiots with Underwoods. Votes: 2

Darryl F. Zanuck

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Writers write. Dreamers talk about it. Votes: 2

Jerry B. Jenkins

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Writers are the most terrible kleptomaniacs. Votes: 2

Mark Millar

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Writers are not meant for action. Votes: 2

Manuel Puig

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Writers are engineers of human souls. Votes: 2

Yury Olesha

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Writers are as jealous as pigeons. Votes: 2

Anton Chekhov

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Writers are the engineers of human souls. Votes: 2

Joseph Stalin

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Writers: believe! And go do the work . . . Votes: 2

Theodora Goss

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Writers don't give prescriptions. They give headaches! Votes: 2

Chinua Achebe

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Writers are completely out of touch with reality. Votes: 2

Joss Whedon

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Writers never get a very good deal in Hollywood. Votes: 2

Richard O'Brien

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Writers do not come out of houses without books. Votes: 2

Doris Lessing

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Writers are used to being re-created, and need it. Votes: 2

David James

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Writers, all the good ones, are Natural Born Liars. Votes: 2

Daniel Keys Moran

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Writers are damned liars. Every single one of them. Votes: 2

Jennifer Donnelly

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Writers are interesting people, but often mean and petty. Votes: 2

Lillian Hellman

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Writers should be applauded for their ability to make things up. Votes: 2

Emma Donoghue

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Writers are also sort of like vultures, but with fewer ethics. Votes: 2

Libba Bray

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Veterans and remarkable rookies. International Thriller Writers, Inc. (ITW) cofounder, David Votes: 2

Lee Child

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Writers begin with a grain of sand, and then create a beach. Votes: 2

Robert Black

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Writers were a strange sort; I knew that much from the newspapers. Votes: 2

Chris Priestley

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Writers are a little below clowns and a little above trained seals. Votes: 2

John Steinbeck

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Writers, unlike most people, tell their best lies when they are alone. Votes: 2

Michael Chabon

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Writers say many true things about their own experiences with publicity and promotion. Votes: 2

Teresa Nielsen Hayden

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Writers acquire their technique by spotting, savoring, and reverse-engineering examples of good prose. Votes: 2

Steven Pinker

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Writers have problems writing sex scenes, because writing one really well is pornography. Votes: 2

Fran Lebowitz

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Writers are two-home men - they want a place outside and a place within. Votes: 2

John le Carre

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Writers serve as the memory of a people. They chew over our public past. Votes: 2

Annie Dillard

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Writers rush in where publishers fear to tread and where translators fear to tread Votes: 2

Guillermo Cabrera Infante

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Writers read essays and serious thinkers and serious readers... that is a small population. Votes: 2

Alan Lightman

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Writers tend to suffer from back problems because they spend their time bent over a desk. Votes: 2

Eric Idle

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Writers in repressive societies are considered dangerous. That's why so many of them are in jail. Votes: 2

Don DeLillo

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All writers are vampires. Votes: 0

James Gandolfini

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All writers are propagandists. Votes: 0

Derrick Jensen

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Good writers touch life often. Votes: 0

Ray Bradbury

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We writers are resilient souls. Votes: 0

Lauren DeStefano

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Little children are all writers. Votes: 0

Alice Mattison

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Scotland consistently produces world-class writers. Votes: 0

Sara Sheridan

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Yeah, writers do hate writing. Votes: 0

Philip Seymour Hoffman

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Even writers need relief from words. Votes: 0

Sarah Vowell

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The modernist writers found despair inspirational. Votes: 0

Mason Cooley

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Generally, writers have very uninteresting lives. Votes: 0

Damon Galgut

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Politicians are better liars than writers. Votes: 0

Shan Sa

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America takes her writers too seriously. Votes: 0

Kingsley Amis

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Mediocre writers borrow; great writers steal. Votes: 0

T. S. Eliot

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Only bad writers think they're good. Votes: 0

Harlan Coben

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There aren't many shy writers left. Votes: 0

Jay McInerney

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I do enjoy working with writers. Votes: 0

Neil Jordan

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Code writers, they are my idols. Votes: 0

will.i.am

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I think writers are very anxious. Votes: 0

Helen Garner

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So what? All writers are lunatics! Votes: 0

Cornelia Funke

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Good writers are of necessity rare. Votes: 0

George Henry Lewes

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My book sales make 'real writers' possible. Votes: 0

Jennifer Weiner

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There's a certain possessiveness of writers sometimes. Votes: 0

William Devane

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Bad writers have influences. Good writers steal. Votes: 0

S.M. Stirling

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I don't like writers. They're dangerous people. Votes: 0

Greta Garbo

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Philosophers write for professors; thinkers for writers. Votes: 0

Emile M. Cioran

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Old age treats freelance writers pretty gently. Votes: 0

John Updike

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Ill writers are usually the sharpest censors. Votes: 0

John Dryden

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I read, therefore I'm interested in writers. Votes: 0

Philip Kaufman

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Lunatics are writers whose works write them. Votes: 0

David Mitchell

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Today, writers want to impress other writers. Votes: 0

Paulo Coelho

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There were five writers on Blazing Saddles. Votes: 0

Dom DeLuise

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Comedy writers have the most fragile egos. Votes: 0

Mindy Kaling

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All writers steal from their own lives. Votes: 0

Brad Meltzer

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I enjoy being influenced by other writers. Votes: 0

Steve Toltz

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All my big heroes are literary, writers. Votes: 0

Henry Rollins

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One reason writers write is out of revenge. Votes: 0

Cynthia Ozick

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All writers behave badly. All people behave badly. Votes: 0

Claire Tomalin

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How few writers can prostitute all their powers! Votes: 0

E. M. Forster

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Most of our writers tend to be recorders. Votes: 0

Gore Vidal

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Young writers take themselves very seriously in college. Votes: 0

Kyle Kinane

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Good writers are visible just behind their words. Votes: 0

William Zinsser

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Most writers, in my opinion, are dysfunctional derelicts. Votes: 0

Mike Tyson

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Reading for writers is like training for athletes. Votes: 0

Linda Sue Park

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Great writers create; writers of smaller gifts copy Votes: 0

W. Somerset Maugham

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Sentence writers are not copyists; they are selectors. Votes: 0

Stanley Fish

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Everybody can write; writers can't do anything else. Votes: 0

Mignon McLaughlin

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Our great American writers were all newspaper people. Votes: 0

John Gould

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Good traders trade. Good letter writers write letters. Votes: 0

Ed Seykota

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Outstanding high school writers reported extensive summer reading Votes: 0

Stephen D. Krashen

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I think writers are prone to hyperbole sometimes. Votes: 0

John Legend

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Unemployed writers have muses. Employed writers just sweat. Votes: 0

Lucille Kallen

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Even the most productive writers are expert dawdlers. Votes: 0

Donald Murray

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Too many new writers dress up old cliches. Votes: 0

Christopher Fowler

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Big writers become a kind of shared climate. Votes: 0

Adam Gopnik

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As writers we need to crack open language. Votes: 0

Natalie Goldberg

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Great writers are the saints for the godless. Votes: 0

Anita Brookner

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It's well known that actors are lousy writers. Votes: 0

Richard E. Grant

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Why do writers write? Because it isn't there. Votes: 0

Thomas Berger

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I get interested in writers who are enigmatic. Votes: 0

Harry Hamlin

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We need writers who fear nothing. ("Our Goal") Votes: 0

Yevgeny Zamyatin

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Los Angeles is a Yukon for crime-story writers. Votes: 0

Christina Stead

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I love the camaraderie of a writers' room. Votes: 0

Maria Semple

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Bad things don't happen to writers; it's all material. Votes: 0

Garrison Keillor

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Many childrens writers dont have children of their own Votes: 0

Mark Haddon

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Movies have influenced all writers, not just thriller writers. Votes: 0

Ken Follett

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Many children's writers don't have children of their own. Votes: 0

Mark Haddon

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Good writers define reality; bad ones merely restate it. Votes: 0

Edward Albee

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The only impeccable writers are those who never wrote. Votes: 0

William Hazlitt

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Reading is probably what leads most writers to writing. Votes: 0

Richard Ford

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Few writers are willing to admit writing is autobiographical. Votes: 0

Terry McMillan

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Most writers adore their editors, and I'm no exception. Votes: 0

Linda Sue Park

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A storyteller is basically what actors and writers are. Votes: 0

Bruce Boxleitner

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Foolish writers and readers are created for each other. Votes: 0

Horace Walpole

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Prose writers are interested mostly in life and commas. Votes: 0

Ursula K. Le Guin

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Most writers need a wound, either physical or spiritual. Votes: 0

Martin Amis

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I know important literary writers who can't get published. Votes: 0

Frederick Busch

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Readers don't work for writers. They work for themselves. Votes: 0

Mohsin Hamid

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I'm sure other writers have no difficulties writing nice. Votes: 0

Justine Larbalestier

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I've had very close relationships with some twentieth-century writers. Votes: 0

Penelope Wilton

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The Guild is the authoritative voice of American writers. Votes: 0

Scott Turow

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For historians, creative writers provide a kind of pornography. Votes: 0

Hilary Mantel

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No language is rude that can boast polite writers. Votes: 0

Aubrey Beardsley

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All writers have the idea that they are famous. Votes: 0

Heather O'Neill

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I get to meet writers, and I love writers. Votes: 0

Frederick Busch

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Mine is not a story to tell struggling writers. Votes: 0

Tom Bodett

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No one in my writers' room can wear sweatpants. Votes: 0

Amy Sherman-Palladino

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Mine is not a story to tell struggling writers, Votes: 0

Tom Bodett

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I'm not one of those writers who writes everyday. Votes: 0

Sjon

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A good rule for writers: do not explain overmuch. Votes: 0

W. Somerset Maugham

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Being an actor, we're so dependent on the writers. Votes: 0

Amy Ryan

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Wayne Curtis is one of our very best writers! Votes: 0

David Adams Richards

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Horror writers are specialists in the worst case scenario Votes: 0

Richard Laymon

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All bad writers are in love with the epic. Votes: 0

Ernest Hemingway

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Rage is to writers what water is to fish. Votes: 0

Nikki Giovanni

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Characters are limbs that writers use to kill with. Votes: 0

Joseph Eastwood

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The mercury rule writers also ignored mercury's special qualities Votes: 0

Tom Allen

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We are great writers on the same dreadful typewriter Votes: 0

Allen Ginsberg

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TV is the place that writers want to be. Votes: 0

Ayelet Zurer

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Most writers can write, most rock 'n rollers cannot. Votes: 0

Andrew Eldritch

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Why do the lives of writers seem so... train-wrecky? Votes: 0

Chuck Palahniuk

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Our job, as writers is to do our jobs. Votes: 0

David Mamet

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Some writers take to drink, others take to audiences. Votes: 0

Gore Vidal

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The mercury rule writers also ignored mercury's special qualities. Votes: 0

Tom Allen

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What makes bad writers so annoying is their good passages. Votes: 0

Natalie Clifford Barney

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The riches of adversity; we were made thinkers and writers. Votes: 0

Lailah Gifty Akita

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Fiction writers canât be trusted. They make things up. Votes: 0

Dan Poynter

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Some Native American writers enjoy being called Native American writers. Votes: 0

Toni Morrison

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Anybody can direct, but there are only eleven good writers. Votes: 0

Mel Brooks

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The most underrated of all contemporary American writers of fiction. Votes: 0

William March

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My favorite writers have been those who've said things well. Votes: 0

Ray Bradbury

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The writers are the stars of every really successful sitcom. Votes: 0

Betty White

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Young writers should definitely research the current sounds and styles. Votes: 0

Lamont Dozier

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Books are the ultimate way for writers to reach immortality. Votes: 0

Iris Chang

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Most publishers, like most writers, are ruined by their successes. Votes: 0

Willa Cather

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You're gambling with something vital. Most writers get smashed egos. Votes: 0

Norman Mailer

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There are two kinds of writers: hustlers and sanctimonious hustlers. Votes: 0

Edward Hoagland

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I'm sure many writers have these strange, tiny little habits. Votes: 0

Stephen Sondheim

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The writers could always do an about-face and change everything Votes: 0

Vera Farmiga

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How many authors are there among writers? Author means originator. Votes: 0

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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I think new writers everywhere need opportunities to get published. Votes: 0

Greg Egan

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writers do not choose their subjects; their subjects choose them. Votes: 0

Erica Jong

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Enlightening editorial writers is even more difficult than educating educators. Votes: 0

Malcolm Forbes

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I suppose all writers worry about the well running dry. Votes: 0

Richard Russo

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There can never be enough writers anywhere in the world. Votes: 0

Zakes Mda

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Only bad writers think that their work is really good. Votes: 0

Anne Enright

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There are more writers who read than readers who write. Votes: 0

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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Unrecognized alcoholism is the ruling pathology among writers and intellectuals. Votes: 0

Diana Trilling

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Those who write are writers. Those who wait are waiters. Votes: 0

A. Lee Martinez

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It's a dream for all writers to write for Broadway. Votes: 0

Richard M. Sherman

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I love writers. All of my best friends are writers. Votes: 0

Patricia Clarkson

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writers don't like to write letters. Too much like work. Votes: 0

Mari Sandoz

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There are no dull subjects. There are only dull writers. Votes: 0

H. L. Mencken

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Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers. Votes: 0

T. S. Eliot

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Damn the subjunctive. It brings all our writers to shame. Votes: 0

Mark Twain

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Many climbers become writers because of the misconceptions about climbing. Votes: 0

Jonathan Waterman

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I spend days with writers' block. It is a problem. Votes: 0

Mackenzie Crook

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Science fiction writers aren't fortune tellers. Fortune tellers are fakes. Votes: 0

William Gibson

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I'm evangelical on the subject of some chefs and writers. Votes: 0

Anthony Bourdain

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If you want to know a country, read its writers. Votes: 0

Aminatta Forna

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With network shows, writers can be so protective of every syllable. Votes: 0

Michael Shanks

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I think people underestimate the value of collaboration, especially for writers. Votes: 0

Akiva Goldsman

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Actors are good liars; writers are good liars with good memories. Votes: 0

Daniel Keys Moran

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Virgil and Horace [were] the severest writers of the severest age. Votes: 0

John Dryden

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At the height of the McCarthy period, writers were being hounded. Votes: 0

Irwin Shaw

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Stories don't end with the writers, however many started the race. Votes: 0

Patrick Ness

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...writers, like priests, should have compassion...and a sensitivity to pain... Votes: 0

John Geddes

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I think writers, by nature, are more observers instead of participators. Votes: 0

Ian Hunter

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There are many more want-to-be writers out there than good editors. Votes: 0

Stephen Ambrose

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Painters of paintings, writers of books, never could tell the half. Votes: 0

Lorenz Hart

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As writers, we are exploring the mystery, the mystery of existence. Votes: 0

Nadine Gordimer

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Because most writers have totally unrealistic concepts of how publishing works. Votes: 0

Jim Harrison

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Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent. Votes: 0

E. M. Forster

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All the great writers root their characters in true human behaviour. Votes: 0

Ben Kingsley

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We wouldn't be artists, writers, painters, musicians, if we weren't sensitive. Votes: 0

Wayne Coyne

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All writers, all storytellers, are imposing their own narrative on something. Votes: 0

Michael Kimmelman

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Most writers can write books faster than publishers can write checks. Votes: 0

Richard Curtis

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Very few writers of distinction in fact were outstanding as undergraduates. Votes: 0

Joyce Carol Oates

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Saturday night is perfect for writers because other people have "plans. Votes: 0

Mike Birbiglia

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If writers stuck to firsthand experience, novels would be pretty limited. Votes: 0

Stef Penney

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Some major American publishing houses still seek work by foreign writers. Votes: 0

Stephen Kinzer

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Whores and writers, Mahound. We are the people you can't forgive. Votes: 0

Salman Rushdie

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I'm one of the lucky writers: plots come easily to me Votes: 0

Caroline B. Cooney

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One of the most talented writers out there is Brian Haig. Votes: 0

Vince Flynn

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Many a restaurant seems to employ more copy writers than cooks. Votes: 0

Peg Bracken

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We have the best writers in the business [on The Office]. Votes: 0

John Krasinski

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I guess the important thing for young writers is to read. Votes: 0

Paul Auster

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I have daughters who are writers and actors but no musicians. Votes: 0

Rosanne Cash

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All good writers speak in honest voices and tell the truth. Votes: 0

Eudora Welty

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Some of the greatest writers in our industry can't get work. Votes: 0

Kent McCord

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As an actress I am always interested in the new writers. Votes: 0

Donna McKechnie

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Rick Bass is one of the best writers of his generation. Votes: 0

George Plimpton

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I love new writing, new blood, modern works by unknown writers. Votes: 0

Joseph Fiennes

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It feels amazing to work with writers that write really well. Votes: 0

Giancarlo Esposito

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Only a generation of readers will span a generation of writers. Votes: 0

Logan Pearsall Smith

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Only a generation of readers will span a generation of writers. Votes: 0

Steven Spielberg

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We choose to be writers because we don't want to talk. Votes: 0

Gloria Steinem

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Happy children do not seem to grow up to be writers. Votes: 0

Piers Anthony

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Some writers hate to go to trials, but I love trials. Votes: 0

Ann Rule

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Only a generation of readers will spawn a generation of writers. Votes: 0

Steven Spielberg

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I'm one of the lucky writers: plots come easily to me. Votes: 0

Caroline B. Cooney

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Too many writers of fiction don't give the reader enough credit. Votes: 0

Jonathan Evison

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There are a lot of good actors, and writers out there. Votes: 0

Stephen Humphrey Bogart

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Read Jerrod Edson. He is one of our best young writers. Votes: 0

David Adams Richards

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I think writers are not only writers, they are also citizens. Votes: 0

Chinua Achebe

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Even though no one admits it, writers are leaders in their communities. Votes: 0

Pramoedya Ananta Toer

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It's the job of intellectuals and writers to cast doubt on perfection. Votes: 0

Antonio Tabucchi

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Some of the best fiction writers got their start writing airline menus. Votes: 0

Erma Bombeck

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I think I'm attracted to writers who tell us something about ourselves. Votes: 0

Garry Hynes

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Country people give me more than writers, and country places than towns. Votes: 0

Leonard Alfred George Strong

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Editing is the same as quarreling with writers " same thing exactly. Votes: 0

Harold Ross

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Brainless writers gossip nonsense to others heads as dense as they is. Votes: 0

George Harrison

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All writers are thieves; theft is a necessary tool of the trade. Votes: 0

Nina Bawden

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We have all this courage as writers, but then there's this fear. Votes: 0

Sandra Cisneros

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There are all kinds of writers. The best writers write children's books. Votes: 0

Richard Scarry

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Even in the midst of love-making, writers are working on the description. Votes: 0

Mason Cooley

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Most writers are middle-class and are the children of doctors or lawyers. Votes: 0

Gore Vidal

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The companionship of dead writers is a wonderful form of live friendship. Votes: 0

Julian Barnes

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Be nice to your children. They may grow up to be writers. Votes: 0

Katerina Stoykova Klemer

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In Hollywood, writers are considered only the first draft of human beings. Votes: 0

Frank Deford

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I'm not one of those writers that sits worrying about posthumous fame. Votes: 0

Doris Lessing

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Like all writers, my greatest inspiration, my ultimate muse, is a deadline. Votes: 0

Dave Barry

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I think poets are much more dramatic, more theatrical than fiction writers. Votes: 0

Francine Prose

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Humor writers:1) Write2) Laugh3) Laugh when they write4) Write when they laugh Votes: 0

Ann K. Howley

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Then, as now, archaelogists and writers ventured where others feared to tread. Votes: 0

Janet Wallach

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WRITERS ARE "SPIRITIAL VENTRILOQUIST" WHO HAVE THE ABILITY TO MAKE PAPER TALK! Votes: 0

Qwana M. BabyGirl Reynolds-Frasier

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Good writers borrow from other writers. Great writers steal from them outright. Votes: 0

Aaron Sorkin

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The thing all writers do best is find ways to avoid writing. Votes: 0

Alan Dean Foster

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Country people give me more than writers, and country places than towns. Votes: 0

Leonard Strong

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Many fiction writers who put the science in dont get it right. Votes: 0

Kathy Reichs

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Romance writers and readers have one thing in common: We love men. Votes: 0

Teresa Medeiros

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I think writers can gain a lot of vitality from being misread. Votes: 0

Matthew Specktor

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I think writers rush in where everybody is very frightened to tread Votes: 0

Guillermo Cabrera Infante

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Editing is the same as quarrelling with writers - same thing exactly. Votes: 0

Harold Ross

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I very much like people. I don't much like writers who don't. Votes: 0

Jim Shepard

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Some writers are only born to help another writer write one sentence. Votes: 0

Ernest Hemingway

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no two writers go about things in exactly the same way (intro) Votes: 0

Stephenie Meyer

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Most people who are writers go through periods when they can't write. Votes: 0

Joyce Carol Oates

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Alafair Burke is one of the finest young crime writers working today. Votes: 0

Lisa Unger

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Many fiction writers who put the science in don't get it right. Votes: 0

Kathy Reichs

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The great writers are great as they have big workshop of imagination. Votes: 0

Kishore Bansal

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I prefer dead writers because you don't run into them at parties. Votes: 0

Fran Lebowitz

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Those who say they want to be writers, and aren't writing, don't. Votes: 0

Ernest Hemingway

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The children of great authors do not, as a rule, become writers. Votes: 0

Robert Green Ingersoll

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David is the show. There are other writers, but it's David's vision. Votes: 0

Steve Schirripa

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That is my major concern: writers who are in prison for writing. Votes: 0

Antonia Fraser

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My sensibility steers me toward writers who are out on their own. Votes: 0

Tahar Ben Jelloun

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There are dozens of great American writers who write about the family. Votes: 0

William Nicholson

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I still think about the writers I loved when I was a kid. Votes: 0

Dan Chaon

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If writers were good businessmen, they'd have too much sense to be writers. Votes: 0

Irvin S. Cobb

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When fiction writers like my poems I feel like I've hit the jackpot. Votes: 0

Cate Marvin

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Telling writers to shut up is a sure way to keep them talking. Votes: 0

James Wolcott

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There's a great myth about cartoonists, writers and people that are on TV. Votes: 0

Shel Silverstein

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All writers should be put in a box and thrown in the sea. Votes: 0

Gordon B. Hinckley

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As writers, it is our job not only to imagine, but to witness. Votes: 0

Dani Shapiro

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The Shield made me realize there were great opportunities for writers in TV. Votes: 0

Nick Antosca

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American writers want to be not good but great; and so are neither. Votes: 0

Gore Vidal

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Characters are not created by writers. They pre-exist and have to be found. Votes: 0

Elizabeth Bowen

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When writers stop believing in their own stories, readers tend to sense it. Votes: 0

Tracy Kidder

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Steve Martin is one of my favorite performers, writers, artists of all time. Votes: 0

Claire Danes

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All great writers begin with a good leather binding and a respectable title. Votes: 0

James M. Barrie

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The really important people in TV are not the directors; they're the writers. Votes: 0

Mary Harron

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A lot of our writers, like Conan O'Brien, moved on to other things. Votes: 0

Matt Groening

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I've heard from writers and musicians and fans that they think I'm underrated. Votes: 0

Rick Springfield

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One of the biggest problems for beginning writers is this need to over-explain. Votes: 0

Scarlett Thomas

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I think many people would say that writers like Stephen King have hypergraphia. Votes: 0

Tracy Chapman

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Many writers profess great exactness in punctuation who never yet made a point. Votes: 0

George D. Prentice

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My mother would say it is literally ghost writers who come to me. Votes: 0

Amy Tan

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Pity the nation that has to silence its writers for speaking their minds. Votes: 0

Arundhati Roy

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Many writers tend to write summing-up books at the end of their lives. Votes: 0

V. S. Naipaul

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The talkers and writers resent being left on the sidelines by the doers. Votes: 0

Thomas Sowell

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It's very hard to turn writers against each other, believe it or not. Votes: 0

Matthew Weiner

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All good writers are sensitive to clichÃ©s and endeavor to avoid them Votes: 0

Ben Yagoda

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My best advice to writers is get yourself born in an interesting place. Votes: 0

Pierre Berton

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I'm a writer and writers either have good memories or nothing at all. Votes: 0

Maya Angelou

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I really hesitate to say that any of my shows influenced other writers. Votes: 0

Stephen J. Cannell

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I definitely have loads of respect for writers and the art of writing. Votes: 0

Molly Shannon

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Are artists and writers the only people entitled to lives of their own? Votes: 0

Richard Yates

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I'm for anything that lets writers stretch, in or out of their series. Votes: 0

Laura Lippman

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It's important for all writers to try to figure out what they're doing. Votes: 0

Vijay Seshadri

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Some writers enjoy writing, I am told. Not me. I enjoy having written. Votes: 0

George R. R. Martin

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I don't want actors to be writers. I think it's too much responsibility. Votes: 0

Susanne Bier

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When I teach, I try to assign writers from whom I can learn. Votes: 0

Tom Barbash

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I jump 'em from other writers but I arrange 'em my own way. Votes: 0

Blind Willie McTell

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The trouble with young writers is that they are all in their sixties. Votes: 0

W. Somerset Maugham

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Science fiction writers, I am sorry to say, really do not know anything. Votes: 0

Philip K. Dick

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At the most basic level, I appreciate writers who have something to say. Votes: 0

Daniel Alarcon

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Why has the South produced so many good writers? Because we got beat. Votes: 0

Walker Percy

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American writers ought to stand and live in the margins, and be more dangerous. Votes: 0

Don DeLillo

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History isn't written by the winners OR the losers; it's written by the writers. Votes: 0

Alan C. Baird

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I have a problem with blogs - all the best writers benefit from edits. Votes: 0

Rick Moranis

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When a country is strong... it accepts any dose of pessimism from its writers. Votes: 0

Michel Houellebecq

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Find the best writers, pay them to write, and avoid typos at all costs. Votes: 0

Ernest Hemingway

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I'm an author. And writers write books. And writing books is a full-time career. Votes: 0

Marianne Williamson

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Sometimes writers (poets) expect me to think far deeper than I'm willing to dig. Votes: 0

Richelle E. Goodrich

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I get so used to working with writers that my prime occupation is development. Votes: 0

Ridley Scott

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The greatest writers of this age... are aware of the mystery of our existence. Votes: 0

J. B. Priestley

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Most writers are vulnerable and insecure, and Kay Graham was more so than most. Votes: 0

Robert Gottlieb

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[Bill Shawn] didn't edit the writers very strongly, but he knew what he wanted. Votes: 0

Nat Hentoff

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I can list on one hand the famous science fiction writers I never met. Votes: 0

Robert Silverberg

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We live in a time when writers do not always have barriers around them Votes: 0

Georges Simenon

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Well, you know when people are no good at anything else they become writers. Votes: 0

W. Somerset Maugham

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M F K Fisher is the dowager queen of writers on browsing and slicing. Votes: 0

Philip Howard, 20th Earl of Arundel

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There are writers who go their whole lives and never hit that No. 1 spot. Votes: 0

Brad Thor

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Comedians rarely have writers, and if you do it's usually a sign of laziness. Votes: 0

Jim Gaffigan

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I admire the attention other writers can give to the world we're walking in. Votes: 0

Stephen Vincent Benet

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Many writers do little else but sit in small rooms recalling the real world. Votes: 0

Annie Dillard

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Very few writers really know what they are doing until they have done it. Votes: 0

Anne Lamott

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You can live with me in this house I've built out of writers blocks. Votes: 0

Pete Wentz

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I think writers like old cities and are made very nervous by new cities. Votes: 0

Donald Barthelme

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I'm sure there are writers who are great businessmen, but I never met any. Votes: 0

Arthur Miller

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It's a bit of a crapshoot out there with young writers right now anyway. Votes: 0

George Murray

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[My] dream writers room: "'Taxi.' I need to write for someone named Judd." Votes: 0

Judd Apatow

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I like Hemingway and I like a lot Jewish writers (such as) Saul Bellow. Votes: 0

Wesley Clark

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I have almost never been compared to male writers in any review. All women. Votes: 0

Kate Zambreno

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Real writers are those who want to write, need to write, have to write. Votes: 0

Robert Penn Warren

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One of the most subtle and powerful writers of dark fiction - a unique voice. Votes: 0

Michael Marshall Smith

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If we as writers could predict what readers grab on to, we would write it. Votes: 0

Lois Lowry

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I often felt myself to be an outsider, which is great training for all writers. Votes: 0

Karen Russell

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Rock and roll stars have it much better than writers when they're on a tour. Votes: 0

Neil Gaiman

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It's the writers' job to make it positive. It's my job to make it real. Votes: 0

Lee Pace

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I love writers who are insightful enough to be cynical but choose not to be. Votes: 0

Brian D. McLaren

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I was a pretty good fighter. But it was the writers who made me great. Votes: 0

Jack Dempsey

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Great writers leave us not just their works, but a way of looking at things. Votes: 0

Elizabeth Janeway

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The great writers of aphorisms read as if they had all known each other well. Votes: 0

Elias Canetti

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You know, as fiction writers, if our instincts are off, we can't pay our bills. Votes: 0

Lorrie Moore

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In fact, I think for a lot of writers, it's so hard to be read. Votes: 0

Susie Bright

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We have to think bigger as writers. We have to try and change the world. Votes: 0

Larry Kramer

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Jo Nesbo

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I added 'writers' to my list of people not to trust. They make everything up. Votes: 0

David Mitchell

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If pens doubled as bullets, I bet few writers would want to write about war. Votes: 0

Jarod Kintz

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I feel that the world needs writers. We need to know what's really going on. Votes: 0

Anne Roiphe

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Do we have good writers, producers and actors in the U.K.? Yes we do. Votes: 0

Eric Fellner

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Kennedy was a man who liked writers and even I got invited to the White House Votes: 0

Irwin Shaw

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In a free country it is the duty of writers to pay no attention to duty. Votes: 0

E. B. White

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I think the criticism that I take to heart is from other writers that I respect. Votes: 0

Steve Earle

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I feel like if writers used writing as therapy we'd have a ton of happy writers. Votes: 0

Jennifer Gilmore

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All that writers can do is keep trying to say what is deepest in their hearts. Votes: 0

Lloyd Alexander

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I think that if you can butter writers up enough, they might give you a little. Votes: 0

Kristen Bell

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Only the writers can change or fix the past by going back to edit old works Votes: 0

Munia Khan

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I just have a thing for writers. Maybe it because I'm just so not a writer. Votes: 0

Patricia Clarkson

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Some writers pick a topic and write around that, but I like to include it all. Votes: 0

Sarah Dessen

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I'm of the ilk of writers that feels you have to be open to the inspiration. Votes: 0

Sara Bareilles

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I'm useless when I meet writers I love - I go slack-jawed and stupid with awe. Votes: 0

Katherine Boo

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I have the longing that all writers have for new ears to pour my words into. Votes: 0

Alasdair MacLean

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I do think that the modern India does belong to writers who are living in India. Votes: 0

Kiran Desai

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Our job as writers is to listen, to come home to the four corners of the earth. Votes: 0

Natalie Goldberg

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Don't wait for writers to be dead to be read; the living ones can use the money. Votes: 0

Thomas C. Foster

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I am one of the best five writers to come out of English music since the war. Votes: 0

Roger Waters

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I don't have a room full of writers pitching ideas. It's just me out of my head.

Louis C. K.

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When the fad changed from folk to rock, they didn't take along any good writers.

Mary Travers

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There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized. Or even cured.

Robert A. Heinlein

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Certain writers have it very precise and there's not much room to add something.

Robert De Niro

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Don't wait for writers to be dead to be read; the living ones can use the money.

Thomas C Foster

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Are writers reporters, prophets, crazies, entertainers, preachers, judges, what?

Wallace Stegner

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It is within the power of writers and artists to do much more: to defeat the lie!

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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Imaginative writers often project their own monsters and meanings on basic facts.

Christopher Bram

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Advice to young writers? Always the same advice: learn to trust our own judgment.

Doris Lessing

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There's a perilous word fiction writers need to watch out for. The word is 'had.'

James Scott Bell

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For comic writers charge Socrates with making the worse appear the better reason.

Quintilian

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There are too many good comic book writers out there. I'd rather remain a fanboy.

Simon Kinberg

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It's an accepted fact that all writers are crazy, even the normal ones are weird.

William Goldman

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I always wrote. My parents are writers. It just seemed like something people did.

Zoe Kazan

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How I work is I work from of very character-driven place. And I trust the writers.

Amy Adams

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Placing on writers the responsibility to represent a culture is an onerous burden.

Amy Tan

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Publishers never tell writers anything. They're all crazy and they drive me crazy.

Anne Bernays

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I draw the art for the writers. A lil' chibi of each author crowns their articles.

Holly Golightly

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Most writers do similar things in their minds. It's how the mind works, basically.

Raymond Pettibon

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The best writers who have put pen to paper have often had a journalism background.

Rick Bragg

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I didn't know writers could be real live people, because I never knew any writers.

Rita Dove

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Advice to writers: Sometimes you just have to stop writing. Even before you begin.

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

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Real writers write because they love to write. They don't write for public acclaim.

Chuck Palahniuk

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The New Testament writers did not invent a doctrine of Scripture they inherited it.

D. A. Carson

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It's deprivation that makes people writers, if they have it in them to be a writer.

William Maxwell

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We writers - we're the snowflakes of the literary world. We each have our own shape.

Alice Walker

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You just don't know writers. They'll use anything, anybody. They'll eat their young.

Dennis Potter

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I lay off a lot modern fiction and only rely on living writers for non-fiction work.

Henry Rollins

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I write not for your farthing, but to try / How I your farthing writers, may outvie.

Isaac Watts

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Ed Wood served a great purpose - mainly making writers feel better about their work.

R. K. Milholland

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That sun is lookin' good... and hot! Get it? Hilarious! My joke writers are awesome.

Tom Bergeron

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There is such an animal as a nonstylist, only they're not writers - they're typists.

Truman Capote

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It's difficult for writers in the theatre. It's difficult for writers in the theatre.

Donna McKechnie

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Most writers write haphazardly. The actor is fighting unjustified words all the time.

Marlon Brando

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I think all writers are a bit crazy; Damaged souls, incapable of doing anything else.

Paul Auster

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I had to prepare physically every day, and I didn't leave many scraps for the writers

Ryne Sandberg

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I wonder sometimes if the motivation for writers ought to be contempt, not admiration.

Orson Scott Card

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The writers' strike a couple years ago was a bonanza for reality TV shows new and old.

Carole Nelson Douglas

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If you have to read to cheer yourself up, read biographies of writers who went insane.

Colm Toibin

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Most musicians don't write about being a musician cause most musicians aren't writers.

Dan Bejar

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As the 'critic of color,' I'm frequently asked to review Indian and Pakistani writers.

Parul Sehgal

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And there are people who want to be writers because they love to write. And they care.

Russell Banks

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it's been my experience that most writers don't talk about their craft--they just do it

Alfred Lansing

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Most writers write books that they wouldn't read. I ought to know; I've done it myself.

Gore Vidal

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This is the gift all writers seek-to write language that incandesces yet does not melt.

Lawrence Clark Powell

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I think all writers are different. I've been with a few writers; they're all different.

Rene Russo

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A lot of young writers wait for inspiration. The inspiration only hits you at the desk.

Robert Anderson

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The world may be full of fourth-rate writers but it's also full of fourth-rate readers.

Stan Barstow

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I can't lie and say there are no bad writers. Sorry, but there are lots of bad writers.

Stephen King

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The writers want to know were you made your mistake, no how well your curve is breaking.

Alvin Dark

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When you see two writers named on a movie, one of them did some drafts and got the boot.

Andrew Davies

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A writers job is to destroy and then to build the thing back up again by a chosen means.

Barry Hannah

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Most writers, most books, you have no idea whether it was a dollar or a million dollars.

Chad Harbach

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The better the writers the less they will speak about what they have written themselves.

Ernest Hemingway

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I'm kind of hooked to the game of art and literature; my heroes are artists and writers.

Jim Morrison

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As writers we must, from our very opening sentence, speak with authority to our readers.

Michael Cunningham

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when it comes to their essential faculty as writers, all writers are androgynous beings.

Nadine Gordimer

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They say writers sell everybody out. What can you do? You know only the people you know.

Vivian Gornick

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I just love working with actors, and I love working with writers, working with designers.

Adam Rapp

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I think writers worry that you might not exist in some strange way if you're not writing.

Anne Enright

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I can think of plenty of writers whose work I revere and whose lives I know little about.

Brad Listi

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[On the writers she admires:] I prefer dead writers, because I don't see them at parties.

Fran Lebowitz

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Poets and writers who are in love with the superlative all want to do more than they can.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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All writers are waiting for replies. That's what I've learned. Maybe all human beings are

Niall Williams

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Most of the outrage comes from not the public, but from the media, the press and writers.

Seth MacFarlane

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People only become writers if they can't find the one book they've always wanted to read.

Virginia Woolf

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Prudence is one of the virtues which were called cardinal by the ancient ethical writers.

William Fleming

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Speech writers are more vulnerable to vanity than any other group of people in Washington.

David Frum

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I don't really think the outburst is recent; there have always been writers in Appalachia.

Donald Ray Pollock

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This is the role of writers: to turn their tears into a story - and perhaps into a prayer.

Elie Wiesel

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We should write, above all, because we are writers, whether we call ourselves that or not.

Julia Cameron

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I never hear white writers get asked, 'Do you worry about how you represent white people?'

Junot Diaz

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If writers learn more from their books than do readers, perhaps I may have begun to learn.

Lloyd Alexander

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Live an interesting life. Meet people. Read a lot and widely, learn from the great writers

Michael Morpurgo

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It's also not unusual for writers to look backward. Because that's your pool of resources.

Paul McCartney

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Two sorts of writers possess genius: those who think, and those who cause others to think.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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It's the whole cat and mouse game between the readers and writers that makes the web work.

Tim Berners-Lee

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I think all writers write for an audience. There is no such thing as writing for yourself.

William S. Burroughs

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I always loved song writers who wrote songs in the first person, so it's kind of like that.

Cameron Crowe

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I have never been particularly impressed by the self centered musings of my fellow writers.

Gore Vidal

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I also write plays, so I understand the writers mind, and how obsessed you can get writing.

Jeff Daniels

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I'm the biggest Chekov fan - there's something that he does that not many other writers do.

Jeremy Irvine

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Directors and writers have a lot of stress as well, because they have people they answer to.

Alexis Bledel

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Everything takes me forever. It's all lurch, flail. I hope that is good news to you writers.

Anne Lamott

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I don't think writers compete, I think they're all doing separate things in their own style.

Elmore Leonard

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The great writers just kept bringing them out. They didn't care if they repeated themselves.

Irwin Shaw

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but writers, Garp knew, were just observers - good and ruthless imitators of human behavior.

John Irving

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Another thing all writers have in common is we're all observers. We pay attention to detail.

Judy Blume

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There are some writers I think who love to go around and visit bookstores and just interact.

Lincoln Child

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I've always felt those articles somehow reveal more about the writers than they do about me.

Marilyn Monroe

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When you catch an adjective, kill it - perhaps the best possible advice for budding writers.

Mark Twain

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Many fiction writers eventually want to feel that their work forms a single, unified entity.

Peter Straub

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It's also interesting to notice that most of the best Finnish speculative writers are women.

Toni Jerrman

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Young writers should be encouraged to write, and discouraged from thinking they are writers.

Wallace Stegner

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Bad writers are those who try to express their own feeble ideas in the language of good ones.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

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Writing, at its best and truest, can offer solace and salvation for both readers and writers.

Roxane Gay

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I think it's up to writers to write stuff that is compelling enough that people want to watch.

Aaron Sorkin

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Good writers show rather than tell. Stories are told in action. Life stories are no different.

Donald Miller

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Like most-maybe all- writers, I learned to write by writing and, by example, by reading books.

Francine Prose

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I think writers are a lot like lawyers. We feed off the misfortunes of people, even ourselves.

Gail Anderson-Dargatz

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Most writers are in a state of gloom a good deal of the time; they need perpetual reassurance.

John Hall Wheelock

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I really don't want to encourage young writers. Keep them down and out and silent is my motto.

John Updike

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Successful writers learn at last what they should learn at first,--to be intelligently simple.

Josh Billings

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The crew, the actors and the writers all work the same way. We always want to do the best job.

Robert Knepper

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In general, writers shouldn't be killed for what they write, though I can think of exceptions.

Salman Rushdie

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Most writers flourish greatly on a simple, healthy routine with occasional time off for gaiety.

Dorothea Brande

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I don't think writers should write about answers. I think writers should write about questions.

Paul Haggis

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The world is a more engaging and less dramatic place than writers ever give it credit for being

Richard Ford

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And must I, perchance, like careful writers, guard myself against the conclusions of my readers?

Djuna Barnes

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For writers that rehearsal period is death. It is the most destructive thing of all to a script.

Peter Stone

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It would be no loss to the world if most of the writers now writing had been strangled at birth.

Rebecca West

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The writers who have nothing to say, are the ones you can buy, the others have too high a price.

Walter Lippmann

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'Course the world of sports takes itself way too serious. Sports writers are all high and mighty.

Artie Lange

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Good writers hate bad writing but hating bad writing doesnât make you good. Writing badly does.

Dan Harmon

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The wonderful fortune of some writers deludes and leads to misery a great number of young people.

Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

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Details are our business as writers. Your heart leaps when you see a detail that can go somewhere

Joan Didion

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The thing with being on a series that runs that long is that the writers run out of things to do.

Ted Shackelford

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Like so many writers I started writing stories because I didn't have much time for anything else.

Tobias Wolff

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New writers seem to pop up from everywhere. And quite a few of them are really good and original.

Toni Jerrman

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There's not much to be said about the period except that most writers don't reach it soon enough.

William Zinsser

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People who go on to be writers are those who can forgive themselves the horror of the first draft.

Alain de Botton

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Deserted libraries hold the shades of writers who worked within, and are haunted by their absence.

Alberto Manguel

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Being part of a community of writers is huge. I really think that's why people go to MFA programs.

Alice Mattison

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Updike and Bellow and Roth were my three favorite writers when I was young and throughout my life.

Ann Patchett

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If writers wrote as carelessly as some people talk, then adhasdh asdglaseuyt[bn[ pasdlgkhasdfasdf.

Daniel Handler

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Get more women producers, writers, directors. Why should we expect men to do it for us? They can't

Kathleen Turner

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I suppose all writers are crazy, but if they are any good, I believe they have a terrible honesty.

Raymond Chandler

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I would advise budding writers some other kind of job, unless they think they're very, very lucky.

Terry Pratchett

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Clear writers, like fountains, do not seem so deep as they are; the turbid look the most profound.

Walter Savage Landor

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Us writers all like each other and want to write stories with each other; we're having a good time.

Charles Soule

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I'm not the most accomplished of writers out there, but I feel that I quite effective all the same.

Don Gibson

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You call this a script? Give me a couple of 5,000-dollar-a-week writers and I will write it myself.

Joe Pasternak

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Praise will lead you to vanity, and blame will lead you to self-pity, and both are bad for writers.

John Berryman

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We have some writers so abstruse and deep that they drown themselves in their fathomless sentences.

Josh Billings

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I didnât know that painters and writers retired. Theyâre like soldiers â they just fade away.

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

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When midlist writers are treated like dirt, I would desist were I less stubborn and less committed.

Marge Piercy

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What I adore is supreme professionalism. I'm bored by writers who can write only when it's raining.

Noel Coward

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What is The Subconscious to every other man, in its creative aspect becomes, for writers, The Muse.

Ray Bradbury

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Don't get me wrong. I have nothing against this as a method, but it is not what English writers do.

William Golding

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The perfect integrity of The NewYork Times, and its writers, is not precisely 'just silly nonsense,'

Hedi Slimane

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An awful lot of thriller writers write women rather badly. So just doing it OK gets a lot of credit.

Ken Follett

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Art inspires me. Looking at art in a museum, listening to music, reading the works of other writers.

Theodora Goss

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Therefore we say that a lying Spirit has been in the mouth of the writers of the books of the Bible.

Thomas Paine

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I can certainly sympathize with writers who don't want to put themselves or their loved ones at risk.

Adam Hochschild

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The pre-shoot days are so relaxed and fun and the writers are laughing. I love the rehearsal process.

Allison Janney

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Successful writers are not the ones who write the best sentences. They are the ones who keep writing.

Bonnie Friedman

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I would say the next imminent hot writers are often the writers from the decade before you were born.

Fiona Shaw

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We don't have enough words for photography. Can you imagine writers having only one word for writing?

John Paul Caponigro

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We writers have this saying 'Kill your darlings'... but I suppose you family men don't agree with it.

Mike Pohjola

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It is the custom when praising a Russian writer to do so at the expense of all other Russian writers.

Robert Wilson Lynd

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Only two things happen to writers when they die: Either their work survives, or it becomes forgotten.

Stephen King

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In my imaginary utopian world there would be a greater allegiance between music writers and musicians.

Emily Haines

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writers just kept on staring at nothing until they wrote something. Might be two minutes or two weeks.

Martha Grimes

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Miserable is the fate of writers: if they are agreeable, they are offensive; and if dull, they starve.

Mary Wortley Montagu

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I think writers write for their consciences, they write for their own true audiences, for their souls.

Mo Yan

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What I take from writers I like is their economy - the ability to use language to very effective ends.

Mos Def

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Artists are expected to talk about their work but writers aren't expected to talk about their writing.

Peter Schjeldahl

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Look at the scope of writers who sell stuff. I'm at the very top of the power curve in terms of sales.

Tucker Max

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I think fiction writers write what they do because no one else has written it and they want to read it.

Alan Cheuse

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All serious writers want the obvious rewards: fame, money, women, love -- and most of all, an audience!

Edward Abbey

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I am of the firm opinion that no one should tell writers what to do, or what to write, or how to write.

Hisham Matar

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Well you can't believe everything you read. After all, by definition, fiction writers lie for a living.

Janette Rallison

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The triumph of writing fiction is that by doing so, writers can build a more ideal world in themselves.

Lauren Groff

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Elizabeth Searle writes with intelligence, passion and wit. She's one of the best young writers around.

Robert Boswell

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Like actors and writers who are on and off again in terms of employment, I had a very unstructured life.

Buzz Aldrin

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â¦ the truest writers are those who see language not as a linguistic process but as a living elementâ¦

Derek Walcott

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Most people in the world of comedy at least are multi-hyphenates, so people who direct are also writers.

Judd Apatow

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Those big-shot writers could never dig the fact that there are more salted peanuts consumed than caviar.

Mickey Spillane

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I think that's what turns young men and women into writers - the happiness you discover living in books.

Paul Auster

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Since Caesar, we know his historians are liars. The good writers get read. Bad history doesn't get read.

Peter Greenaway

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I have a tremendous respect for writers who scribble away their torments, and their passions into plays.

Rob Urbinati

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What the readers want is a good story, and what the writers always want to luck into, it's a good story.

Stephen Graham Jones

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TV is where writers get to tell interesting stories. Because writers, for the most part, run television.

Vince Gilligan

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Artists and writers have to understand and live the truth that what we are doing is nourishing the world.

Ariel Gore

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I never understand how writers can succumb to vanity - what you work the hardest on is usually the worst.

Flannery O'Connor

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One of the terrible things about doing movies is that the writers never consider the temperature outside.

Jamie Farr

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It's easy, after all, not to be a writer. Most people aren't writers, and very little harm comes to them.

Julian Barnes

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I have always thought that writers come with any variety of attributes. Some are capable and some aren't.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

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Great writers are not those who tell us we shouldn't play with fire, but those who make our fingers burn.

Stephen Vizinczey

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Like most writers, I write about what has happened to me as that involves the minimum amount of research.

Steven Moffat

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We need writers who know the difference between the production of a commodity and the practice of an art.

Ursula K. Le Guin

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I think [Guettel is] probably one of our most special writers now, pushing things in ways that are unique.

Bartlett Sher

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It's often said that writers sometimes need to go around the block a few times to get where they're going.

Christopher Bram

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Feminism is teaching. I've gotten a lot of pleasure pushing younger writers that I've met and worked with.

Erica Jong

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Bad writers are nearly always haunted by the notion that Latin or Greek words are grander than Saxon ones.

George Orwell

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There are a million talented writers who are unpublished only because they stop writing when it gets hard.

Gillian Flynn

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I have only one bit of advice to beginning writers: be sure your novel is read by Rodgers and Hammerstein.

James A. Michener

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Just like writers can have a lot of different styles, so can readers. It's hard to pigeonhole book buyers.

Kevin Sampsell

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[The writers of the holy books] did not even know the earth revolves around the sun. Why are we listening?

Lawrence M. Krauss

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Without writers fooling themselves about what their books might accomplish there would be no books at all.

Mark Vonnegut

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There are so many different types of writers. It's just sheer coincidence that they're all called writers.

Renata Adler

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The writers job is like solving a puzzle, and finally arriving at a solution is a tremendous satisfaction.

William Zinsser

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The writers are so smart, I can only imagine. I would love to be in that room. I love the creative process.

Carrie-Anne Moss

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Whatever one may say about the perils of workshops, they help writers internalize an awareness of audience.

Debra Dean

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The condition of the world today is such that most writers feel they cannot truthfully be "comic" about it.

Dylan Thomas

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I haven't stuck to any formula. Most great writers stick to the same style, but I wanted to be more various

Irwin Shaw

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Remember, when the writers refer to themselves as 'we' and to the reader as 'you,' this is two against one.

Judith Rascoe

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There are writers who can express in as little as twenty pages what I occasionally need as many as two for.

Karl Kraus

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Unfortunately, there are writers whose only concern is how good they could make themselves look on a title.

Len Wein

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I think all writers have a bit of genius in them, and a bit of talent. Genius retreats but talent improves.

Martin Amis

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For the film maker must come by his convention, as painters and writers and musicians have done before him.

Virginia Woolf

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I think that most writers who wait until they're inspired to write are just waiting for the fear to subside.

Barry Mann

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writers who go outside the lines when they draw pictures of the world are seldom rewarded for their efforts.

Jennifer Stone

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[Writing a joke] there is no team of writers. It's just you in an office, staring at yourself in the mirror.

Jimmy Fallon

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We live entirely, especially if we are writers, by the imposition of a narrative line upon disparate images.

Joan Didion

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As if the night has been created for the writers and as if the silence of it is the very inspiration itself!

Mehmet Murat ildan

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The longing for a very garish kind of success seems as widespread among writers as among investment bankers.

Pankaj Mishra

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All responsible writers, to some degree, have become involuntary criers of doom, because doom is in the wind

Philip K. Dick

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Honestly, I haven't the time to read contemporary writers. I know this is awful, but in the main it is true.

William Golding

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All writers are discontent. That's because they're aware of a potential and believe they're not reaching it.

William Saroyan

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(As) a director who is a writer, I have respect for writers, so I'm less likely to step on an idea or a line.

Ben Affleck

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All that a Pulitzer really does is give the obit writers something to put between the commas after your name.

Eddie Adams

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There are some writers who feel they are elected by God. I am not. I am elected by the devil - this is clear.

Eduardo Galeano

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My friends tend to be writers. I think writers and painters are really all the same-we just sit in our rooms.

Howard Hodgkin

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The best introduction to the psychological world of one of the most important and gifted writers of our time.

Italo Calvino

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Too many artists and writers have forgotten their roots. I embrace my fans because, in a way, they're family.

Jim Steranko

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Book lovers are engaged with writers in a private communion that occurs in some vaporous cenacle of the mind.

Joe Queenan

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Actors, politicians, and writers-all of us are but creatures of the hour. Long-lasting fame comes to but few.

Louis L'Amour

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If one believes that words are acts, as I do, then one must hold writers responsible for what their words do.

Ursula K. Le Guin

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It's very hard to get good songs because a lot of writers record their own; they keep the best for themselves.

Olivia Newton-John

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Writers have to be careful not to confuse personal attention with the attention that's going towards the book.

Andre Dubus

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Writers cannot choose their own mood: with them it is not always hide-tide, nor --thank Heaven!--always Storm.

Charlotte Bronte

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It's my experience that endings are never easy, and I think I'm not alone among filmmakers or writers in this.

David O. Russell

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Writers are always at the edge of the inferno, and the fire is licking at our toes. Luckily, this turns us on!

Erica Jong

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In my travels I am often asked if college stifles young writers. In my opinion, it doesn't stifle them enough.

Flannery O'Connor

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I always think the insecurity is going to go away, but it's always there. Only bad writers think they're good.

Harlan Coben

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All writers, I think, are to one extent or another, damaged people. Writing is our way of repairing ourselves.

J. Anthony Lukas

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Well, there are more writers of blogs right now than there are readers, so that's clearly a vanity phenomenon.

John Doerr

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I like to hear from my readers, and I like to feel like I'm part of a bigger community of readers and writers.

Maggie Stiefvater

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Many writers lay very great stress upon some definite moral purpose, at which they profess to aim their works.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

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It is deeply unfair to task writers of color with unique responsibilities that we don't assign to all writers.

Roxane Gay

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One reason the human race has such a low opinion of itself is that it gets so much of its wisdom from writers.

Wilfrid

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Writers ever since writing began have had problems, and the main problem narrows down to just one word - life.

William Styron

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It's hard to resist the magical thinking that the work habits of great writers are the key to their greatness.

ZoÃ« Heller

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Writers are a loosely knit community - community is an overstated word. Writers don't see each other very much.

Alan Lightman

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Prison always has been a good place for writers, killing, as it does, the twin demons of mobility and diversion

Dan Simmons

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I need you to do more than survive. As writers, as revolutionaries, tell the truth, your truth in your own way.

Dorothy Allison

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My generation of young female writers discovered that we could dictate the form and content of our own fiction.

Erica Jong

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Writers - we're a little crazy about how much we care about it. We spend a lot of time fussing. At least, I do.

Gloria Steinem

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One of the reasons writers are never satisfied with their work is because they're always striving to do better.

JoAnn Ross

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Women writers lift themselves up from the depths; as they rise, each brings with her what she is able to carry.

Lucy Poate Stebbins

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I donât like to hurt peopleâs feelings, and I donât like to knock other writers as a matter of principle.

Lydia Davis

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Even though I think writers can sometimes thrive from being misread. It can give them something to push off of.

Matthew Specktor

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I have always been a huge admirer of my own work. I'm one of the funniest and most entertaining writers I know.

Mel Brooks

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Bees are sometimes drowned in the honey which they collectso some writers are lost in their collected learning.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

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I am madness maddened when it comes to books, writers, and the great granary silos where their wits are stored.

Ray Bradbury

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Those authors who appear sometimes to forget they are writers, and remember they are men, will be our favorites.

Benjamin Disraeli

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For us, there's an inherent process when you're ending something to be thinking about the beginning, as writers.

Damon Lindelof

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Don't be discouraged if you think you're not a great writer because terrible writers are successful in Hollywood

David Seltzer

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Obviously all writers, all artists, have their own internal critics; as they write they are being self-critical.

Edna Longley

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I was lucky to receive help at the beginning of my career and now I want to help other writers as much as I can.

Jennifer Weiner

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Great writers say things that are so beautiful, the very act of repeating them makes life itself more beautiful.

Joe Queenan

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Writers of either gender ought to be able to do the opposite sex-that's one basic test of competence, after all.

Julian Barnes

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Most writers have very little that's important or valuable to offer; most of them are just repeating each other.

Pankaj Mishra

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The world needs writers. We will always be necessary. There are few professions that can claim that distinction.

Rod McKuen

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Sitting down with younger women writers and saying, "This is what I do and you can do this" is hugely important.

Sarah Ruhl

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There are writers who do start doing the same thing again and again and almost inevitably fall into self-parody.

Tobias Wolff

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When you encounter sophistication in the creation of a female character, you thank the writers and you claim it.

Vera Farmiga

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I always admire writers. My father was a writer, a poet. I always admire people who can clearly state their mind.

Ai Weiwei

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In my own little way, I feel like I'm part of a group of writers who care deeply about pushing the essay forward.

David Shields

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Writers seldom write the things they think. They simply write the things they think other folks think they think.

Elbert Hubbard

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I read a lot. I liked a tremendous number of poets and writers. The person whose work I liked the most was Joyce.

Grace Paley

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We need more points of view from women and we need more support for female directors and writers in the industry.

Jessica Chastain

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I don't think many writers like their best-known piece of work, particularly when it was written a long time ago.

Lillian Hellman

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Artists don't often know much about writing... but they don't bray so much about writing as writers do about art.

Matthew Collings

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Superior writers, videographers and other content makers want to work with their own kind and for their own kind.

Nick Denton

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Science fiction is the only genre that enables African writers to envision a future from our African perspective.

Nnedi Okorafor

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Writers don't seem to benefit much by the advance of science, although they thrive on superstitions of all kinds.

Northrop Frye

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Serious writers write, inspired or not. Over time they discover that routine is a better friend than inspiration.

Ralph Keyes

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I'm a fool for a good role in a creative piece where there are really such talented writers and wonderful actors.

Sissy Spacek

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A whole generation of writers dined out on the dialectic between original cultures and their culture by "progress.

Anatole Broyard

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Women writers should write a lot if they want to write. Take the English women, for example. What amazing workers.

Anton Chekhov

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I think writers tend to be experience junkies, and I think they also tend to want to be on the outside looking in.

Augusten Burroughs

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The writers are pretty political and they want to get as big an audience as they can - they want the popular vote.

Bill Pullman

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For writers, so much is done in isolation. It can be easy to feel detached, or to get a little lost along the way.

Brad Listi

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Lawyers, doctors, plumbers, they all made the money. Writers? Writers starved. Writers suicided. Writers went mad.

Charles Bukowski

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writers do not find subjects: subjects find them. There is not so much a search as a state of open susceptibility.

Elizabeth Bowen

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I read about writers' lives with the fascination of one slowing down to get a good look at an automobile accident.

Kaye Gibbons

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Happy the land where the writers are sad, the merchants satisfied, the rich melancholic, and the populace content.

Madame de Stael

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I really appreciate what the writers are doing and respect everything that they do. So, I was satisfied, for sure.

Pablo Schreiber

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Nobody wanted me. I just kept writing books and learning my craft. Most writers aren't very good in the beginning.

Phyllis A. Whitney

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I sometimes wonder what those of us who are writers would become in a nonliterary culture - storytellers? Hermits?

Rebecca Solnit

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I love working on the fly when the writers come up with new jokes on show nights. It's exciting. I love it so much.

Allison Janney

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Writers quite often starve. And I'm mainly just writing critical prose and poetry, that's a formula for starvation.

Clive James

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