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I suspect that every writer is secretly writing for someone. — Unknown Author
Many a young person tells me he wants to be a writer. I always encourage such people, but I also explain that there's a big… — Alex Haley
Every writer is working from his own individual world view, and that can become as characteristic as a fingerprint. — Don Pendleton
Every writer I admire is my teacher. If you look at it, and if you care to read carefully enough and to read and reread… — Sandra Cisneros
There is no right or wrong way to write a novel. Each journey is different for every individual work and for every writer. The first… — Don Roff
Truth is, every writer has to be a good editor, and you have to edit yourself. It's a skill every writer has to acquire. — Lisa Scottoline
If you are a good editor, your relationship with every writer is different. — Robert Gottlieb
If bad taste were a felony, every writer I know would've done prison time. — Steven Bochco
I think every writer should have tattooed backwards on his forehead, like ambulance on ambulances, the words 'everybody needs an editor. — Michael Crichton
It's different for every writer. It's not a career for anyone who needs security. It's a career for gamblers. It's a career of ups and… — George R. R. Martin
Everyone tells you to write what you know. It’s the tried-and-true advice every writer hears at some point in her career. But to take my… — Sarah Jio
With the possible exception of God during the writing of the Bible, every writer in history has needed an editor. So do you. — Donald Davis
There's this sense of being strange, which is at the heart of every creative person. Every writer, every actor, every director knows who Ripley is.… — Anthony Minghella
It's what every writer needs: a daybed. — Vince Flynn
Behind every writer stands a very large bookshelf. — Justin Cronin
I do whatever is necessary in order to maintain the equanimity we all need to withstand the disappointment and rejection that are the lot of… — Dani Shapiro
Every writer since the beginning of time, just like other people, has been afflicted by what a friend of mine calls — William Styron
It is worth remembering that every writer begins with a naively physical notion of what art is. A book for him or her is not… — Jorge Luis Borges
Every writer hopes or boldly assumes that his life is in some sense exemplary, that the particular will turn out to be universal. — Martin Amis
I'm blessed in my good friends, and some of them happen to be writers, though that's almost never what our friendships are about. And every… — Ali Smith
I think every writer has got to direct. If you don't direct, you can't protect your work. The only way to ensure that it's going… — Amy Sherman-Palladino
Buffy the Vampire Slayer showed the whole world, and an entire sprawling industry, that writing monsters and demons and end-of-the-world is not hack-work, it can… — Russell T Davies
People like ourselves may see nothing wondrous in writing, but our anthropologists know how strange and magical it appears to a purely oral people -… — Neil Postman
I have myself always been terrified of plagiarism - of being accused of it, that is. Every writer is a thief, though some of us… — Joseph Epstein
Readers are less and less seen as mere non-writers, the subhuman other or flawed derivative of the author; the lack of a pen is no… — Terry Eagleton

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