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But he knew people and he was head writer for Have Gun Will Travel, and if you took those early Star Treks that we did… — Majel Barrett
I just don't see myself as a travel writer. I can't. I don't. — Robyn Davidson
Inside of all the makeup and the character and makeup, it's you, and I think that's what the audience is really interested in... you, how… — Gregory Peck
A writer is rarely so well inspired as when he talks about himself. — Anatole France
Every writer is a narcissist. This does not mean that he is vain; it only means that he is hopelessly self-absorbed. — Leo Rosten
What has a writer to be bombastic about? Whatever good a man may write is the consequence of accident, luck, or surprise, and nobody is… — Edward Dahlberg
A good short-story writer has an instinct for sketching in just enough background to ground the specific story. — Lynn Abbey
A catless writer is almost inconceivable. It's a perverse taste, really, since it would be easier to write with a herd of buffalo in the… — Barbara Holland
I was brought up in the great tradition of the late nineteenth century: that a writer never complains, never explains and never disdains. — James A. Michener
No writer need feel sorry for himself if he writes and enjoys it, even if he doesn't get paid. — Irwin Shaw
A writer is dear and necessary for us only in the measure of which he reveals to us the inner workings of his very soul. — Leo Tolstoy
I'd say that about 82 percent of what I write is bad, but don't go by me; I'm as bad a judge as I am… — George Burns
You cannot teach creativity - how to become a good writer. But you can help a young writer discover within himself what kind of writer… — Mario Vargas Llosa
The writer who neglects punctuation, or mispunctuates, is liable to be misunderstood for the want of merely a comma, it often occurs that an axiom… — Edgar Allan Poe
A great lathe operator commands several times the wage of an average lathe operator, but a great writer of software code is worth 10,000 times… — Bill Gates
No one in the modern world is more lonely than the writer with a literary conscience. — Ellen Glasgow
If one in twenty does not seem high enough odds, we may, if we prefer it, draw the line at one in fifty (the 2… — Ronald Fisher
No aphorism is more frequently repeated in connection with field trials, than that we must ask Nature few questions, or, ideally, one question, at a… — Ronald Fisher
The mathematics clearly called for a set of underlying elementary objects-at that time we needed three types of them-elementary objects that could be combined three… — Murray Gell-Mann
Who wants to become a writer? And why? Because it's the answer to everything. ... It's the streaming reason for living. To note, to pin… — Enid Bagnold
We're past the age of heroes and hero kings. ... Most of our lives are basically mundane and dull, and it's up to the writer… — John Updike
I don't think any religion makes any sense and I think people who are into that are really getting duped, and I don't think Judaism… — Howard Stern
I feel that, in a sense, the writer knows nothing any longer. He has no moral stance. He offers the reader the contents of his… — J. G. Ballard
It is true that I am a writer, and I was married to a composer, and I have lived in a small village in New… — Jamaica Kincaid
Nobody objects to a woman being a good writer or sculptor or geneticist if at the same time she manages to be a good wife,… — Marya Mannes

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