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One of the greatest gifts you can get as a writer is to be born into an unhappy family. — Pat Conroy
This country's crazy in terms of fame and what people think it means. They expect a writer to be something between a Hollywood starlet and… — Kent Haruf
As a songwriter, I was influenced by David Bowie - a great writer. A class above everybody in so many ways. Lennon and McCartney, of… — Rick Wakeman
The genius writer was correct. In obtaining freedom, man suddenly understands that he has shouldered a heavy burden, because freedom involves responsibility. A person must… — Alexander Lukashenko
The writer who cannot sometimes throw away a thought about which another man would have written dissertations, without worry whether or not the reader will… — Georg C. Lichtenberg
I have never thought of myself as a good writer. Anyone who wants reassurance of that should read one of my first drafts. But I'm… — James A. Michener
To a chemist, nothing on earth is unclean. A writer must be as objective as a chemist; he must abandon the subjective line; he must… — Anton Chekhov
A writer should say to himself, not, How can I get more money?, but How can I reach more readers (without lowering standards)? — Brian Aldiss
Unless a writer is extremely old when he dies, in which case he has probably become a neglected institution, his death must always be seen… — James A. Baldwin
He was such a bad writer, they revoked his poetic license. — Milton Berle
If you believe you can make a living as a writer, you already have enough ego. — David Brin
The writer is important only by dint of the territory he colonizes. — Van Wyck Brooks
Either a writer doesn't want to talk about his work, or he talks about it more than you want. — Anatole Broyard
Short stories are designed to deliver their impact in as few pages as possible. A tremendous amount is left out, and a good short story… — Orson Scott Card
There is no mistaking the dismay on the face of a writer who has just heard that his brain child is a deformed idiot. — L. Sprague de Camp
There is no idea so brilliant or original that a sufficiently-untalented writer can't screw it up. — Raymond E. Feist
The writer's genetic inheritance and her or his experiences shape the writer into a unique individual, and it is this uniqueness that is the writer's… — James Gunn
If a writer of prose knows enough about what he is writing about he may omit things that he knows and the reader, if the… — Ernest Hemingway
A man is a writer if all his words are strung in definite sentence sounds. — Marianne Moore
Really, in the end, the only thing that can make you a writer is the person that you are, the intensity of your feeling, the… — Unknown Author
All of a writer that matters is in the book or books. It is idiotic to be curious about the person. — Jean Rhys
Engrave this in your brain: EVERY WRITER GETS REJECTED. You will be no different. — John Scalzi
Every writer must acknowledge and be able to handle the unalterable fact that he has, in effect, given himself a life sentence in solitary confinement.… — Peter Straub
There is no idea so stupid or hackneyed that a sufficiently-talented writer can't get a good story out of it. — Lawrence Watt-Evans
There is no satisfactory explanation of style, no infallible guide to good writing, no assurance that a person who thinks clearly will be able to… — Elwyn Brooks White

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