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A born writer is born scrofulous; his career is an accident dictated by physical or circumstantial disabilities. — Dylan Thomas Copy Share Image
Being part of a community of writers is huge. I really think that's why people go to MFA programs. — Alice Mattison Copy Share Image
When you're young, you keep reading new writers and you keep changing your mind about how you ought to sound. — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
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Luckily I haven't fallen into the trap, which has claimed so many writers, of living from day to day thinking 'Ah, I'll… — Amelie Nothomb Copy Share Image
The truth of it is, writers do have peculiar relationships with their characters. They are our children in more senses than one.… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
“A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world." [ Speech upon being awarded the Friedenspreis des Deutschen Buchhandels… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
I know writers have to be crazy. But more than that that, they have to get made and stay mad. If things… — Leon Uris Copy Share Image
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“His head was always in the clouds. 'I'm writing a novel,' he told her. As if that was something to crow about.… — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
I'm definitely one of those actresses who comes to a set knowing how I want to do a scene, and I definitely… — Summer Glau Copy Share Image
Neil Gaiman has reached a masterful stage in his writing where he deserves his own adjective, which could be extended to younger… — Paul Di Filippo Copy Share Image
I kind of dislike 'For Whom the Bell Tolls,' but most of Hemingway in general, mainly because his stylistic shenanigans ruined so… — Christopher Moore Copy Share Image
“It may be that the most striking thing about members of my literary generation in retrospect will be that we were allowed… — Kurt Vonnegut Jr Copy Share Image
“lots of things happen in our lives without any apparent justification. but whatever happens to us,takes us one step ahead in the… — Chitralekha Paul Copy Share Image
“The seasonal urge is strong in poets. Milton wrote chiefly in winter. Keats looked for spring to wake him up (as it… — Helen Bevington Copy Share Image
One thing that makes me very happy is to see the growing activism among chefs in America. Chefs like Tom Colicchio, Bill… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I believe writers need to be chameleons, or like Meryl Streep, who can play all sorts of characters. A good writer should… — Marisha Pessl Copy Share Image
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