Think Writers Quotes
27 quotes by 24 authors
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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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I think writers like old cities and are made very nervous by new cities.
— Donald Barthelme
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I think writers need windows on a view to remind them that a whole world is out there, not the minutiae with which they might…
— Anne McCaffrey
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I don't think writers choose the genre, the genre chooses us. I wrote out of the wish to create order out of disorder, the liking…
— P.D. James
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I think writers rush in where everybody is very frightened to tread
— Guillermo Cabrera Infante
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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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I think writers, by nature, are more observers instead of participators.
— Ian Hunter
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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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I think writers write for their consciences, they write for their own true audiences, for their souls.
— Mo Yan
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I think writers are very anxious.
— Helen Garner
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I think writers have to be proactive: they've got to use new technology and social media. Yes, it's hard to get noticed by traditional publishers,…
— Ian Rankin
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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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I think writers like to see how people bring their words to life, and it's always surprising. Always, no matter what, whether it's good or…
— Lisa Edelstein
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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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When I try to understand somebody, create a character, I fall into them. When I think writers are telling me what to think, I get…
— Hari Kunzru
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I had a great childhood. I think writers are always better off when they have more twisted childhoods, but I didn't.
— Anthony Shadid
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I don't think writers are any smarter than other people. I think they may be more compelling in their stupidity, or in their confusion.
— David Foster Wallace
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Who knows where the talent goes? Sometimes it goes where the money is. Sometimes I think writers are really interested in the glory.
— Matthew Weiner
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I think writers are prone to hyperbole sometimes.
— John Legend
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I do not think writers ought ever to sit down and think they must write about some cause, or theme, or something. If they write…
— Doris Lessing
Who Wrote These Think Writers Quotes
24 authors contributed a total of 27 Think Writers Quotes as follows: