Other Writers Quotes
78 quotes by 76 authors
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Today, writers want to impress other writers.
— Paulo Coelho
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In company with people of your own trade you ordinarily speak of other writers' books. The better the writers the less they will speak about…
— Ernest Hemingway
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In brief, I spend half my time trying to learn the secrets of other writers - to apply them to the expression of my own…
— Shirley Ann Grau
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Writers learn their craft, above all, from the work of other writers. From reading.
— Marie Arana
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You know, it's a pretty mysterious thing still, why you start the songs you start, and the specific flavor of them, the nature of them.…
— Gillian Welch
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I think I'm also more open to other writers being present and listening to other opinions, whereas before I was going through my angsty teen…
— Michelle Branch
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The problem was the journalists who also did not understand much of my music, but they wrote about it. I think you fell into the…
— Klaus Schulze
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I think the criticism that I take to heart is from other writers that I respect.
— Steve Earle
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I get really starstruck and tongue tied when I'm around other writers and the conversation tends not to go well.
— Jennifer Weiner
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I feel more influenced in my own work by dreams than I do by other writers' works in a way. Or by popular culture, movies…
— Alice Hoffman
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Jane Austen can in fact get more drama out of morality than most other writers can get from shipwreck, battle, murder, or mayhem.
— Ronald Blythe
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I think the true test of a pop song, for me, and I've talked to a lot of other writers about this, is you take…
— Ryan Tedder
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During my life I have seen, known, and lost too much to be the prey of vain dread; and, as for the hope of immortality,…
— Mika
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Writers are great lovers. They fall in love with other writers. That's how they learn to write. They take on a writer, read everything by…
— Natalie
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I have experienced healing through other writers' poetry, but there's no way I can sit down to write in the hope a poem will have…
— Marilyn Hacker
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The best way to learn about writing is to study the work of other writers you admire.
— Jeffery Deaver
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It's been a great place to get in touch with what people are really thinking. And to make contact with readers and other writers. Egalitarian,…
— Greg Bear
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I jump 'em from other writers but I arrange 'em my own way.
— Blind Willie McTell
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Read a lot. But read as a writer, to see how other writers are doing it. And make your knowledge of literature in English as…
— Theodora Goss
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Other writers, producers, and directors of low-budget films would often put down the film they were making, saying it was just something to make money…
— Roger Corman
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